The IASM wrote:Lots of Thorium reactors would be good.
I prefer Pebble Bed reactors.
Starkiller101 wrote:Nuclear power is dangrous
Not when done properly.
Starkiller101 wrote:Yes Im Biop wrote:Because you have written half a dozen research papers over 7 years proving this yes?
(I was a very strange child okay?)
just look at what happended to chernobyl
As has been pointed out MULTIPLE times in this thread, Chernobyl is what happens when you give barely literate idiots outdated and idiotic designs for a nuclear reactor, along with the book "101 Ways to Meltdown Your Shitty Reactor", with orders from incompetent (and arguably equally idiotic superiors, along with a system that discourages questioning authority) leaders to follow the book to the letter.
Basically, instead of being the posterchild for "Why we shouldn't have nuclear plants", Chernobyl is actually (and should be known as) the poster child for "How NOT to design, build, and run a nuclear plant".
Immoren wrote:Pontium wrote:I would be in favor when better safeguards are in place as well as disposal of nuclear waste that has ZERO chance of contaminating the planet.
Drop unusable waste into Mariana Trench in heavy metal/lead capsules.
Problem=Solved.
Ladies, gentlemen, people of third genders, and the genderless, I present to you, the Lord of the Rings Option.
Send it back to the fires from whence it came.
Tule wrote:Immoren wrote:Drop unusable waste into Mariana Trench in heavy metal/lead capsules.
Problem=Solved.
Are you crazy? The lead could get out of the container.
Just vitrify the waste, put it in a stainless steel container and dump it into a deep hole in a geologically stable area far above the water table.
Y'know, like Yucca mountain.
I hate to break it to you, but the Marianas Trench IS a deep hole, and although its not exactly geologically stable, and is, by all definitions, beneath the water table, it is STILL a good option.
Its recycling in its purest, simplest form. Anything that gets left in the trench for too long gets subducted back into the Earth's mantle and core. Not to mention that its so deep that the chance for biological contamination is slim to none, and slim just went to South Central and yelled out the N-word at the top of his voice.
Yes Im Biop wrote:Tule wrote:Much more dangerous and expensive than burying it in old bedrock.
Not really. Yuccan is not a good place to bury Waste anyway. Nowhere is. Except probably the earth's core.
Neither are cheap. But both will get rid of ti forever
Again, I resubmit Immy's 'Back to the fires from whence it came' option.
Yes Im Biop wrote:NERVUN wrote:So in other words you admit that the likelihood of all rectors run by governments who will adhere to standards is low... Now tell me again about why nuclear power is so great?
NO, You may say that. But less than a dozen meltdown's, All of which has caused less death than Coal explosions, In 60 years is a better track record than Airplanes.
It's clean, It's much more environmentally Friendly, Especially with Breeders and Thorium reactors, and uranium has an energy density I think a Million times greater than Coal And best of all. It's so much more clean than even Natural Gas plants.
All that "Waste" Can be reused in Breeder reactors or in Tank shot and Armor, Very little radioactive waste is created anymore, Though Cancer Treatment, and Radioactive Tracers create quite a bit of it. You gonna go against Radiotherapy to?
Indeed. Between Breeders, medical therapy, DU rounds and armor, and dumping what can't be reused in deep ocean trenches, I fail to see much of an issue with nuclear "waste".
Posted: Mon Sep 02, 2013 8:41 pm