Why not refine it and reactor technology such that the spent fuel can be used. When it finally reaches the point where it can no longer be reused, we have Yucca Mountain and the salt caverns down in Arizona, if memory serves. The casks used to transport the material have been proven to withstand tremendous impacts, more than they are likely to see in an accident. So sure, they can transport the waste through my backyard!Works for me. Athough there is the issue of storing the spent fuel. Perhaps we can store it at Nimrod's and Cabinet Maker's houses?
No its not. Haven't you heard that it can be accomplished at room temperature?!Where are all the fusion reactors? :idunno: When I was a kid in the early 1980s I kept reading about how fusion is "20 years away"? Well, it's been over 20 years so where are the fusion reactors? :IA:
(Note, nuclear science has since discovered that controlled nuclear fusion is far more complex than previously understood)
Why not refine it and reactor technology such that the spent fuel can be used. When it finally reaches the point where it can no longer be reused, we have Yucca Mountain and the salt caverns down in Arizona, if memory serves. The casks used to transport the material have been proven to withstand tremendous impacts, more than they are likely to see in an accident. So sure, they can transport the waste through my backyard!
Works for me. Athough there is the issue of storing the spent fuel. Perhaps we can store it at Nimrod's and Cabinet Maker's houses?
Works for me. Athough there is the issue of storing the spent fuel. Perhaps we can store it at Nimrod's and Cabinet Maker's houses?
Let's see, Obama trying to get his communism past all the other communists on capitol hill? Shouldn't be a problem for him.The sad thing is, after Obama tries to bankrupt the coal industry, millions will be on rolling blackouts. Assuming he gets his communism past capitol hill.
Nuclear power produces dangerous waste that needs to be stored 25000 years before it is no longer dangerous. That is 5 times the length of recorded history. How long has the oldest country managed to stay politically stable? A few hundred years? Our country has had, what a hundred and forty or so since the War Between the States? Given that anything humans can bury, other humans can dig up, are you willing to bet the lives of your grand children that no one else's grand children will dig up that nastiness and throw it at them? You know that if it had been available in 1865 it would have been used.
A dirty bomb consisting of "hot" nuclear waste packed around a core of conventional explosive could easily make a city uninhabitable or make valuable farm land unusable. The more such waste there is in the world the more certain it is that it will be done, and done often.
Reality check: The longer the half-life of radioactive material, the lower the level of radiation.Nuclear power produces dangerous waste that needs to be stored 25000 years before it is no longer dangerous.
Wrong, wrong, and more wrong. Take a look at Chernobyl. That place is NOT a wasteland that you doomsayers say it is. It is overgrown and overrun by wildlife.
Another problem you have, is U235. It is natural in the ground and is everywhere. If countries really want to build nuclear, after some time they too will have the technology for weapon grade material.
Another problem you have is the making of the dirty bomb. When nuclear reactors create waste, they can surround or mix with the plutonium other minerals like thorium to make the material useless. For someone to come around, dig it back up, then re-convert it, will be too costly. In otherwords, it would be cheaper to start from scratch.
Exactly how dangerous is nuclear waste after 100 years compared to the chemicals we have here in America?
The dirty bomb is a joke. Radio active material is a pathetic way to kill people. There are much more dangerous and effective ways to kill people from chemical, biological, and planes crashing into buildings.
Lets say, you were exposed to high level radio active material. How long will it before you die? The answer is anywhere between 0-10 years.
Case in example is the defector KGB in London. That man swallowed plutonium (worse case scenario). And even then it took a couple weeks to polish him off. Getting radio active waves via air will make death take even longer.
Works for me. Athough there is the issue of storing the spent fuel. Perhaps we can store it at Nimrod's and Cabinet Maker's houses?
Wow, it is hard to know how to respond to this. Lets start with the last sentence----"radioactive waves". Nimrod, suggest you go back to high school physics for starters!!!
Maybe the reason why you can not respond because the only criticism you have is terminology. Radiation would be the correct word, but I was trying to speak in ways people can understand.
Let's see, Obama trying to get his communism past all the other communists on capitol hill? Shouldn't be a problem for him.