-
We’re currently investigating an issue related to the forum theme and styling that is impacting page layout and visual formatting. The problem has been identified, and we are actively working on a resolution. There is no impact to user data or functionality, this is strictly a front-end display issue. We’ll post an update once the fix has been deployed. Thanks for your patience while we get this sorted.
Nuclear Power -- Will It Always be a Four Letter Word in the USA?
Page 7 - Seeking answers? Join the AnandTech community: where nearly half-a-million members share solutions and discuss the latest tech.
It is 9:45 PM (Central Time) and I am watching CNBC there is a show on about Nuclear Power.
They gave an estimate that there is approximately 40,000 tons of spent Nuclear Fuel Rods. All of these are stored on site in Cooling ponds. When they fill up they put them in some kind of Vaults and stack them up on a lot on site at the Nuclear power plant. It looks like this is viable, but France on the other hand is converting the fuel rods into Weapons grade Uranium. USA does not like this idea because the Uranium is a security risk at weapons grade. The Yucka mountain storage area has been in the building process for like 20 years or something like that. Now paul Newman is saying Nuclear power is a good idea.
I will just say that in dangerous fault areas Nuclear power plants may not be feasable. However, in non-inhabited areas it seems like it might be a good idea. Might not be a good idea in a flood plain either. Build it in the desert in Utah or in the high dry areas in the North West like Wyoming.
Call me crazy but it sounds like a pretty good idea. However, in the entire area of the Missouri River, the Illinois River, the mississippi river and basically anywhere in the midwest from Kansas city to Chicago to tennessee to Louisiana and it is not such a good idea.
They gave an estimate that there is approximately 40,000 tons of spent Nuclear Fuel Rods. All of these are stored on site in Cooling ponds. When they fill up they put them in some kind of Vaults and stack them up on a lot on site at the Nuclear power plant. It looks like this is viable, but France on the other hand is converting the fuel rods into Weapons grade Uranium. USA does not like this idea because the Uranium is a security risk at weapons grade. The Yucka mountain storage area has been in the building process for like 20 years or something like that. Now paul Newman is saying Nuclear power is a good idea.
I will just say that in dangerous fault areas Nuclear power plants may not be feasable. However, in non-inhabited areas it seems like it might be a good idea. Might not be a good idea in a flood plain either. Build it in the desert in Utah or in the high dry areas in the North West like Wyoming.
Call me crazy but it sounds like a pretty good idea. However, in the entire area of the Missouri River, the Illinois River, the mississippi river and basically anywhere in the midwest from Kansas city to Chicago to tennessee to Louisiana and it is not such a good idea.
silverpig
Lifer
There are mines in the world where the ore is just as radioactive as the waste coming out of the nuke plants.
Natural elements like arsenic are just as poisonous as nuclear waste and they NEVER decay, yet they are disposed of in normal landfills all the time.
So why is nuclear waste so bad again?
Middle class white people don't work in mines. They pay people who have no other opportunities to. They never think of those people as their kids any more than the nuclear pigs think of the future. We grow deadly poisonous plants in our gardens, but don't like stuff that can kill you by looking through you. You fancy that you can say something that sounds reasonable and logical like anybody will care. People hate themselves and have a deep feeling that radiation is there to give them what they FEEL they deserve. Because they can't identify their real fears they fear what they project onto and that is always the other and the unknown.
Heal humanity and it will lose its fear on the unknown and the unseen, but of course, having become sane, it will also lose all interest in nuclear things. Healthy people care for each other and the future of their kids and don't confuse or allow themselves to rationalize what is really their own egotistical desires with what is real virtue.
QuantumPion
Diamond Member
Well that depends on your definition of "free", but in the US the energy industry is not owned by the government. Meaning that they are paid for and built by private corporations.
With government guaranteed loans:
"Entergy Corp., which have bought up nuclear plants in recent years and now run a quarter of the nation's nuclear reactors. "We can't build without loan guarantees," said Craig Nesbit, an Exelon spokesman. Entergy's nuclear spokesman, Mike Bowling,"
Give the loan guarantees to safe renewable energy please. Stop creating poisons that last thousands of years which nobody can guarantee the safe storage of for that many years.
SunSamurai
Diamond Member
I think that lead moonbeam got to shield the radiation is seeping into his head!
TRENDING THREADS
-
Discussion Zen 5 Speculation (EPYC Turin and Strix Point/Granite Ridge - Ryzen 9000)- Started by DisEnchantment
- Replies: 25K
-
Discussion Intel Meteor, Arrow, Lunar & Panther Lakes + WCL Discussion Threads
- Started by Tigerick
- Replies: 25K
-
Discussion Intel current and future Lakes & Rapids thread- Started by TheF34RChannel
- Replies: 24K
-
-
