An interesting opinion piece that supports my opinion on nuclear…..
Some interesting perspectives on the liberal conservative divide.
What do you think. Have you been suckered by the hype or agree with the piece?
An interesting opinion piece that supports my opinion on nuclear…..
Some interesting perspectives on the liberal conservative divide.
What do you think. Have you been suckered by the hype or agree with the piece?
My opinion on nuclear isn’t limited to one objection, but for many different reasons. I have basically ignored the ‘are they save issue’ in favor or the what I believe is a fact they will never be built.He doesn't think they're unsafe. But you do, right?
^ Agreed on the waste issue alone. Clean up the messes and then we can have a rational discussion.
Nuclear waste is largely a political issue.^ Agreed on the waste issue alone. Clean up the messes and then we can have a rational discussion.
Nuclear waste is largely a political issue.
Reprocessing can substantially reduce the amount of waste and need for new uranium sources, but we don't allow reprocessing in the US because of fears of nuclear proliferation.
On the political side, no one wants to be the state with the central depository for any nuclear waste, so since we don't reprocess or have a central storage space, waste just sits at local sites throughout the country.
We bury the defunct submarine reactors, and I assume aircraft carrier reactors at Hanford of all places.there is a whole shit ton of waste at Hanford from the 50's that is not going to make fuel, and they keep tossing billions at it and not quite solving it.
The former soviet union has graveyards of nuclear powered navy that has not been addressed.
The simple reprocessing of the material in fuel pools all over the world is the tip of the iceberg, IMO.