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Originally posted by wasco2
reply to post by RoyalBlue
Not a nuclear industry shill. Not a mindless tree hugger either. Bottom line is we NEED nuclear power. But beyond that nuclear power is the cleanest, safest, and potentially cheapest way we have to generate electricity. And in case you haven't noticed, our civilization would grind to a halt without cheap, reliable, and plentiful electricity. Don't blather to me about solar and wind energy either. They don't work well enough, and will NEVER work well enough, to ever provide any significant amount of our energy needs. Right now, in the US, most of our electricity comes from coal fired generating plants. A coal plant is orders of magnitude dirtier and more dangerous than modern nuke plants. What we need to be doing is building breeder reactors like there's no tomorrow because without them there may not be a tomorrow. A breeder reactor consumes it's own fuel leaving only a very small amount of admittedly very toxic waste. For the waste that's left the fed.gov needs to reopen and finish Yucca Mnt. and tell you, and all other tree huggers, to take a flying leap.
I doubt we'll do it yet. When a large enough percentage of the population is subjected to rolling blackouts and forced to choose between buying food or enough exorbitantly expensive energy to keep the lights on we might consider it. I just hope by then it's not too late.
Originally posted by RoyalBlue
No wasco, with your plan there WILL BE NO tomorrow. You need to re-educate yourself on the empty lies that nuclear power is the cheapest, cleanest, safest energy source out there. I'll tell you what, I'll even buy you a nice place to live inside an available reactor, your whole family too. There you can live your blissfully ignorant way of life, grow a garden, whatever your heart desires, until it all goes BOOM..............
Originally posted by SarK0Y
yeah, you're helliciously right. plants were developed & operated in manner of delayed bombs: plants cannot be shut down by passive schemes (without electricity), they need long period to cool reactors... Ohhh, what i've been talking about??!!! Actually, these f*cking things cannot be stopped at all due to pools of spent rods. Just for fasty buckies, purely-suicidal projects have been realized!
With the current gen of nuclear reactors it's actually incredibly hard to cause a meltdown, and they're already moving on to the next gen.
Originally posted by TheBrontide
I think it is time we heed the suggestion from the feds to go ahead and approve a public waste state.
Originally posted by SkipperJohn
Originally posted by TheBrontide
I think it is time we heed the suggestion from the feds to go ahead and approve a public waste state.
we did... it is called the united state
Generation III reactors have shown themselves in practice
wind turbines and have killed fewer people while both are fairly uncommon.
The berm's collapse didn't affect the reactor shutdown cooling or the spent fuel pool cooling, but the power supply was cut after water surrounded the main electrical transformers, the NRC said. Emergency generators powered the plant Sunday while workers tried to restore power.
Many nuclear power plants have underground piping, which is rarely inspected properly. Much of this is corroding, causing radioactive leaks and spills of tritium and other radionuclides at several sites. But when certain parts or systems of American nuclear plants come close to violating standards, either the Government or the industry undertakes ‘research’ and both conclude that standards can be lowered! The excuse is, “the standards were overly conservative”. Thus, failing parts and systems are allowed to conform to diluted standards. And when the systems and parts still do not conform, the regulators issue waivers or amendments or special exceptions and let the nuclear plants keep operating.
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