Save America's nuclear power plants

[Marlin]

Save America's nuclear power plants




https://theweek.com/articles/768272/save-americas-nuclear-power-plants?fbclid=IwAR2IM4PEnDjLZel-k4o35OGJu7LqCAJrfGk2wj9LughQXl3dom3LeeZmHys

[hamsamich]

the louder the rhetoric on global warming grows, the more ignorant our politicians look when they shutdown ANY non-fossil large sources of power.  The state of California is the most glaring example in the U.S. while Germany seems hell-bent on eliminating large amounts of carbon-free baseload.

[TVA]

Has zero to do with global warming

[Marlin]

Has zero to do with global warming

Hmmm, whether you believe in global warming climate change or not it is central to the debate on nuclear power. Real, a fairly tale, an imminent threat, or minor impact it is what is central to the debate on the balance of power sources of the future and extension of current low carbon ones.

[hamsamich]

It takes awhile for some to understand the meaning of a post.

[Bonds 25]

"Nuclear reprocessing (taking spent nuclear fuel and running it through a procedure to extract more useable isotopes) is worth examining, as it would produce a lot of fuel and sharply cut high-level waste (which takes hundreds of thousands of years to decay into safe material) at the cost of a lot more low-level waste (which only takes hundreds of years)"

Why is it that even articles written that could possibly be considered Pro-Nuclear never get simple half-life decay rates correct.......


Probably because our Regulator doesn't understand them either....straight from NRC website:


"Because of their highly radioactive fission products, high-level waste and spent fuel must be handled and stored with care. Since the only way radioactive waste finally becomes harmless is through decay, which for high-level wastes can take hundreds of thousands of years, the wastes must be stored and finally disposed of in a way that provides adequate protection of the public for a very long time"
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[/size]Can anyone name one fission product (that is actually externally dangerous) that after 500 years isn't easily managed?

[/size]A billion curies of Cesium-137 would be a little over 15,000 curies after 500 years....15 curies after 1000 years.... after 1120 years its <1 curie.

[/size]Hardly "hundreds of thousands of years".....unless my math is incorrect (strong possibility)