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Ohio Nuclear Powerplant allowed to reopen!

Originally posted by: Skoorb
We need more of them.
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Not until they start lobbing 10 million dollar fines down for major safety and structural violations. Browns Ferry in Alabama almost blew the hell up because of a dumbass using an arc welder in a closed area. I'd rather not have three eyes.
 
Originally posted by: TheBDB
Good, now we need to start building more of em.
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Yup...whats it been since we built a new one? 20 years?

What I'm waiting on is for fusion to become comercially viable...but until then, a few more fission plants would do us some good.
 
This is completly off topic but there was a nuke plant next to a house we were looking at. It stopped me from buying a house next to it. The house was a killer deal and about 3/4 mile away from the plant. Decided to move else where😛
 
The waste issue really needs to be addressed. As I understand it, all of the space at Yucca Mountain (which is still years away from opening) is already spoken for and another repository will need to be constructed.
 
Originally posted by: K1052
The waste issue really needs to be addressed. As I understand it, all of the space at Yucca Mountain (which is still years away from opening) is already spoken for and another repository will need to be constructed.
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Dump it down one of those trenches in the middle of the ocean.
 
I remember on a good day you could see that thing from Port Clinton.

<----Lived teenage years just south of Toledo.
 
Originally posted by: K1052
The waste issue really needs to be addressed. As I understand it, all of the space at Yucca Mountain (which is still years away from opening) is already spoken for and another repository will need to be constructed.
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Lobby for the construction of a breeder reactor in the US. I don't think that piling away the spent fuel is the answer, why dump it when you can re-use it!
 
Originally posted by: Pantoot
Originally posted by: K1052
The waste issue really needs to be addressed. As I understand it, all of the space at Yucca Mountain (which is still years away from opening) is already spoken for and another repository will need to be constructed.
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Lobby for the construction of a breeder reactor in the US. I don't think that piling away the spent fuel is the answer, why dump it when you can re-use it!
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IIRC reprocessing is prohibited in the U.S. because of safety and proliferation issues. I am not saying it is a good argument against it, just that it is not allowed. I do remember the Japanese having an accident at a reprocessing facility, but I don't recall what caused it.
 
I've driven RIGHT by that place before. Its crazy how close to the road it seems, and how tall it looks.


My mother lives on Kelley's Island and you can see that from there.
 
Originally posted by: K1052
The waste issue really needs to be addressed. As I understand it, all of the space at Yucca Mountain (which is still years away from opening) is already spoken for and another repository will need to be constructed.
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I think a bunch of large cave structures just opened up in Iraq and Afganistan. 😉
 
Originally posted by: K1052
The waste issue really needs to be addressed. As I understand it, all of the space at Yucca Mountain (which is still years away from opening) is already spoken for and another repository will need to be constructed.
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First the waste regulations need to be addressed. If a leaf from a tree falls and lands on property owned by a nuclear plant, the leaf is instantly considered hazzardous waste - and thus needs a place to store it. In reality the leaf is not hazzardous at all and should be shuffled off to the landfill with all the other waste a city produces. The amount of waste that is actually harmful that needs to be disposed of properly is miniscule.

The salt in your kitchen cupboard is more radioactive than most of the low level nuclear waste that terrify people.
 
Originally posted by: Electric Amish
Originally posted by: K1052
The waste issue really needs to be addressed. As I understand it, all of the space at Yucca Mountain (which is still years away from opening) is already spoken for and another repository will need to be constructed.
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I think a bunch of large cave structures just opened up in Iraq and Afganistan. 😉
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lol!!!!
 
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