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Added on February 19th, 2020 by storminator | Report Post
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4 years ago

It should have. It is a great failure of our leadership that we allowed the public’s hysterical reaction to nuclear power to kill such programs.

Anyone who believes that mankind causes climate change is needs to only look at their own radical climate activities to know why we are still dependent on carbon based fuels, instead of perfectly clean and nearly 100% renewable nuclear energy.

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tiki god (#1) (MCS+)

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4 years ago

perfectly clean and nearly 100% renewable

except for the problem of what do with the spent fuel and how dangerous the entire operation is when it goes “really bad”

jediadept (#3758)

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4 years ago

Take a look at Thorium reactors. You may wonder WTF have we been using Plutonium all these years.

GrandAdmiralThrawn (#745)

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4 years ago

There as never been a operation that went really bad in the west world. Ever. TMI and that one in Japan were not “really bad”, hysterical people blew it out of proportion. We run little baby reactors on little boats (subs) under 400 feet long, and they’ve never had an issue. We could have reactors in every single town, have a totally decentralized power grid that is nearly immune to natural disaster, or terrorist attack. But no.

To your other point, nuclear fuel rods are almost infinitely rechargeable, there is no waste to speak of. Hell, 2nd rate countries like the UK have been doing it for half a century. We don’t because we’re scared of nuclear proliferation, supposedly. Really just another stupid idea that carter thought up when he was president.

As to what we chose, to bury it, again, no real risks there. It is all naturally occurring. It would release the same about of energy anyway. You should really take the time to speak to someone who works in the industry and find out some truth about nuclear energy.

www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2014/10/01/why-doesnt-u-s-recycle-nuclear-fuel/#27087c21390f

And jediadept is completely correct about Thorium reactors. There are some good Ted Talks about it.

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tiki god (#1) (MCS+)

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4 years ago

Thorium is a pipe dream, and I HAVE spoken to nuke techs, even some of the ones that were on subs. American alone is stock pilling tons of nuclear waste and we have no clue what to do with it because absolutely no one wants it in their back yard and it takes over a millennium for it to be safe again.

Nuclear rods are not rechargable, they don’t hold a charge at all, that’s not how they work, even in the slightest. once they’re disapated and don’t react as well as they did previously they’re casked and stored in pools of water that in theory don’t get radioactive, but who knows really.

Here’s a deep dive article on what the current situation is, tl;dr it’s fucked, we’re fucked, and there’s no way of getting out of it easily.

www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-does-the-us-do-with-nuclear-waste/

Gropegrope (#189286)

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4 years ago

Jesus, listen to Homer Simpson here….

mightyconan (#1876) (MCS+)

4 years ago

Hanford is a prime example of the risk. There’s much more going on there in terms of containment issues than one article can describe, but you can see part of the scope of the problem. Nobody wants a nuclear waste dump even inside a mountain in their neighbourhood.