Ohio Nuclear Powerplant allowed to reopen!

[Fiveohhh]

Originally posted by: dullard

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.

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.

*gasp* I use that salt everyday!!

 

[K1052]

Originally posted by: dullard

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.

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.

It is quite possible that the regulations need to be revised. I was referring to spent fuel and other high-level waste that requires extensive safety precautions. Spent fuel has been accumulating for decades at power plants.

 

[Yzzim]

Originally posted by: Fiveohhh

Originally posted by: dullard

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.

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.

*gasp* I use that salt everyday!!

OH NOOOOOEEEESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11111!!!!!!1111!!!0.99999!!!!111111

 

[StageLeft]

Originally posted by: Mill

Originally posted by: Skoorb
We need more of them.

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.

Three eyes allows for better range-finding. It's a nice upgrade!

 

[Kenny1234]

If we took all of the waste that is radioactive for more than 10 years it would fit in a bucket. The only problem is that the us does not allow the waste to be reprocessed.

 

[Fiveohhh]

Originally posted by: Kenny1234
If we took all of the waste that is radioactive for more than 10 years it would fit in a bucket. The only problem is that the us does not allow the waste to be reprocessed.

Out of curiosity what would you reprocess radioactive waste into..

 

[TheBDB]

Originally posted by: Fiveohhh

Originally posted by: Kenny1234
If we took all of the waste that is radioactive for more than 10 years it would fit in a bucket. The only problem is that the us does not allow the waste to be reprocessed.

Out of curiosity what would you reprocess radioactive waste into..

Non-radioactive waste?

 

[Ogg]

Originally posted by: Fiveohhh

Originally posted by: Kenny1234
If we took all of the waste that is radioactive for more than 10 years it would fit in a bucket. The only problem is that the us does not allow the waste to be reprocessed.

Out of curiosity what would you reprocess radioactive waste into..

I think hes back to the breeder reactor tangent..........a bucket?
Thats one big fvcking bucket right there brother!!

 

[K1052]

Originally posted by: Fiveohhh

Originally posted by: Kenny1234
If we took all of the waste that is radioactive for more than 10 years it would fit in a bucket. The only problem is that the us does not allow the waste to be reprocessed.

Out of curiosity what would you reprocess radioactive waste into..

Spent fuel from power plants contains some Plutonium. This can be recovered and used to fuel another reactor to generate power.

 

[Kenny1234]

double post.

 

[dxkj]

Originally posted by: Fiveohhh

Originally posted by: Kenny1234
If we took all of the waste that is radioactive for more than 10 years it would fit in a bucket. The only problem is that the us does not allow the waste to be reprocessed.

Out of curiosity what would you reprocess radioactive waste into..

Childrens Toys.

 

[K1052]

Originally posted by: Kenny1234
If we took all of the waste that is radioactive for more than 10 years it would fit in a bucket. The only problem is that the us does not allow the waste to be reprocessed.

There is a ton more spent fuel than that. Not to mention that most of the core and other parts become radioactive from being bombarded with neutrons from the reaction.

 

[Kaervak]

Good. Maybe now we'll stop having blackouts occassionally for no damn reason.

 

[Trevelyan]

Originally posted by: Kenny1234
If we took all of the waste that is radioactive for more than 10 years it would fit in a bucket. The only problem is that the us does not allow the waste to be reprocessed.

WTF are you smoking?

"High-level radioactive waste refers to irradiated nuclear fuel (?spent fuel?), liquid products of reprocessing and the solids into which such liquids have been converted. A typical U.S. nuclear power reactor generates about 20-30 tons of high-level nuclear waste each year. This waste is deadly and extremely long-lived. Public Citizen advocates for stringent laws and regulations to keep nuclear waste securely isolated from people and the environment."

 

[Kenny1234]

Originally posted by: K1052

Originally posted by: Fiveohhh

Originally posted by: Kenny1234
If we took all of the waste that is radioactive for more than 10 years it would fit in a bucket. The only problem is that the us does not allow the waste to be reprocessed.

Out of curiosity what would you reprocess radioactive waste into..

Spent fuel from power plants contains some Plutonium. This can be recovered and used to fuel another reactor to generate power.

And if you separate the high level radioactive waste from the rest it fit in a bucket and the rest would be radioactive for 10-20 years. Thats what one of my professors said.

 

[BrunoPuntzJones]

Originally posted by: Kenny1234

Originally posted by: K1052

Originally posted by: Fiveohhh

Originally posted by: Kenny1234
If we took all of the waste that is radioactive for more than 10 years it would fit in a bucket. The only problem is that the us does not allow the waste to be reprocessed.

Out of curiosity what would you reprocess radioactive waste into..

Spent fuel from power plants contains some Plutonium. This can be recovered and used to fuel another reactor to generate power.

And if you separate the high level radioactive waste from the rest it fit in a bucket and the rest would be radioactive for 10-20 years. Thats what one of my professors said.

Er, not to call your prof a retard, but some of those have half-lives of millions of years...

 

[amdskip]

My dad works at a nuclear power plant. When online and running, the particular plant he works at has one million dollars of profit per day.

 

[DrPizza]

I recently read that there's research into bombarding radioactive waste with neutrinos or something to force it to decay more quickly.

 

[iwearnosox]

Originally posted by: amdskip
My dad works at a nuclear power plant. When online and running, the particular plant he works at has one million dollars of profit per day.

Plus your mom can find his "equipment" in the dark because it glows. Added bonus!

 

[ViperMagic]

Originally posted by: DrPizza
I recently read that there's research into bombarding radioactive waste with neutrinos or something to force it to decay more quickly.

Pretty sure thats one of the goals of the DPAD muon project