Nuclear Plant Disaster Red Alert Sent To Canadians By Mistake

[OBEY 57,109]

6 minutes ago, LaLa said:

My phone was on silent thank god, I slept through the whole thing 

Super dumb that it even happened though, like get it together. 

But I remember having my iPhone on do not disturb and the test alert still came through, bc its an emergency thing so it doesn't care if your phone is on do not disturb 

[Economy 52,844]

Just now, LaLuna said:

Yeah, I just read about that. Must've been pretty scary.

Can you imagine if it was real though? I don't get why nuclear plants still exist. To me, they all seem like ticking time bombs. Like,didn't we learn anything from Chernobyl? 

Well, to be fair, the nuclear plants we use now are different from Chernobyl. They are modern designs which way more safety guards and less chance of an accident

 

But yeah it's never garanteed

 

But it's hard. Ontario still gets 51% of its power from Nuclear... 

 

Wind and Solar are intermittent (in winter our sun hours are short on top of that) so it's hard to rely too heavily on it. And hydro is largely maxed out as most favourable areas are already dammed

 

If we tried to replace the half of our electricity that comes from nuclear... It would be hard to fully avoid fossil fuels. We already still use a bit of natural gas to fill in gaps when wind and solar drop  

[Economy 52,844]

3 minutes ago, PunkTheFunk said:

I was asleep when I got the message and I literally just glanced at my phone and thought it was another missing child and went back to bed...

Yeah I assumed that at first too cuz almost every time the alarm is an Amber Alert

 

But I chose to double check anyway and when I saw nuclear alert I wash shook 

[LaLa 19,898]

1 minute ago, OBEY said:

But I remember having my iPhone on do not disturb and the test alert still came through, bc its an emergency thing so it doesn't care if your phone is on do not disturb 

I dunno, I have an iPhone and it was just switched to silent and didn't make a peep (might have vibrated though?) I got the notifications on the screen.

[Florian 20,017]

23 minutes ago, LaLuna said:

Yeah, I just read about that. Must've been pretty scary.

Can you imagine if it was real though? I don't get why nuclear plants still exist. To me, they all seem like ticking time bombs. Like,didn't we learn anything from Chernobyl? 

Because the nuclear energy is the only energy that we can create massively, at any time, on demand, without emitting any greenhouse gases maybe?

Despite a possible accident it's the cleanest and most stable energy we can get. There is no alternative to the nuclear. 

Not to mention that the nuclear field is super important and needed because the researches in nuclear fusion would allow us to produce almost unlimited energy without C02 emissions, without radioactive leftovers and without any safety threats like the current powerplants

[Economy 52,844]

44 minutes ago, Florian said:

Because the nuclear energy is the only energy that we can create massively, at any time, on demand, without emitting any greenhouse gases maybe?

Despite a possible accident it's the cleanest and most stable energy we can get. There is no alternative to the nuclear. 

Not to mention that the nuclear field is super important and needed because the researches in nuclear fusion would allow us to produce almost unlimited energy without C02 emissions, without radioactive leftovers and without any safety threats like the current powerplants

Also the few major nuclear disasters that have ever happened have also mostly happened on first generation nuclear reactors

 

When assessing risk vs benefit it's important to remember that today's nuclear reactors have much safer designs than in the past (even tho its never 100% certain of course)