Should the US go Nuke?

[cam elle toe]

The same kind of fights were going on in France about where to store nuclear waste similar to the U.S. government trying to force the citizens of Nevada to take it. Nobody want its close to them.

Now if they could just come up with the reactor that uses reprocessed rods over and/or never needs rod replacements, don't remember what that is called, but it is experimental. That might work.

I'm sure the French wanted to store it here..or at least in the Atlantic Ocean...Muraroa Atoll where they did their nuclear bomb experiments...I could be wrong though....I'll see if I can find a link

 

[Valde Bovis]

The same kind of fights were going on in France about where to store nuclear waste similar to the U.S. government trying to force the citizens of Nevada to take it. Nobody want its close to them.

Now if they could just come up with the reactor that uses reprocessed rods over and/or never needs rod replacements, don't remember what that is called, but it is experimental. That might work.

We've had the technology to reconvert and recycle rods in the US since Carter, he shut it down and the Clinton era government sold the system/technology to Japan, Japan recycles the rods, and stores plutonium (which is the worst of the worst of the recycel process) all but 2% is reused to seed other reactors. The rest is stored below ground in sylicate and in 50 years it become inert enough to handle without PPE.

The US stores its radioactive waste at the actual sites where the reactors are- we dont recycle them becasue the EPA and many local municipalities have caved into the fearmongers and liars form the EPA and refuse to allow the transport of the waste through thier areas.


France recycles all of their rods, and contols the waste (less than 2% of the materials after recycleing) in barrels of silicate and then stores them for 50 years in the catacombs. They are now reusing the sylicate.

Nuclear power/energy is safe, effeciant and can make any region fully self sufficient. It deserves to be seriously discussed as a viable option and not shoved under a bed by people who refuse to really research the subject and report the truth under imperical data rather than scare tactics to achieve an agenda.

 

[sierrabravo]

i think nuclear power is a great idea but people need to get out of the 3 mile island and chernobyl mindset, if i'm not mistaken they were caused by human error or something or a knob not being turned properly. the waste problem? lets just go with the good-ole "not my problem" or NIMBY (props to canidae, never heard that before) aspect, ya know, shoot it into space or the sun or something! lol I mean if we can land a man on the moon with a computer from 40 years ago, I'm sure if you put my computer in a rocket it could easily control it to the sun to its (final) destination and blow the radioactive shit to hell.

 

[Minor Axis]

Well there are hundreds of tons of the stuff and what happens when a rocket blows up? :humm:

 

[cam elle toe]

I thought so


Northern Territory Government - Radioactive Waste From France To Be Dumped

 

[Minor Axis]

We've had the technology to reconvert and recycle rods in the US since Carter, he shut it down and the Clinton era government sold the system/technology to Japan, Japan recycles the rods, and stores plutonium (which is the worst of the worst of the recycel process) all but 2% is reused to seed other reactors. The rest is stored below ground in sylicate and in 50 years it become inert enough to handle without PPE.

This is something currently in the research stage. I may go try to dig some links tomorrow.

The show stopper is currently with nuclear waste. If most people don't want it around them, force it on them? If you recall, nuclear power was up and coming until the accidents and the waste issue came to the front.

 

[sierrabravo]

Well there are hundreds of tons of the stuff and what happens when a rocket blows up? :humm:

we'll just do what we always do, blame a polititian loL!

 

[SgtSpike]

Yes, the US should definitely build more nuclear power plants.

Besides the radioactive waste, it is a very clean, very powerful source of... power. As long as the waste is handled properly, I don't see a problem with it. Without it, we're either going to need another technological breakthrough, or we're just gonna keep using coal and other fossil fuels. Wind + solar just ain't gonna cut it, no matter how much environmentalists would like it to power the whole world.