Fukushima underscores the dangers of Nuclear Power

[ocpaul20]

Originally Posted by RocketDawg

Well, not every nuclear plant is in a high probability earthquake zone, on the coast subject to tsunamis. If nothing else, the location was likely a poor choice.

I've lived within 25 miles of a nuclear plant for well over 30 years and never think about it. Nuclear, along with natural gas, is the only "green" way to go for electrical power.

Solar and wind are marginal and dependent on locale, not to mention expensive and being anything but green to build - plus, some places don't have enough wind blowing, and some don't have enough sunshine to make them viable.

Tell that to the folk who USED TO live near Chernobyl. Many of them relied on it for their jobs and certainly did not fear it. Three mile island is another area no-one thought would be a problem.

The fact that there are so many nuclear power stations across the world which are old and disintergrating. Dont forget there are some areas in these plants where the maintenance is impossible due to the high radiation, so those areas are still degrading and were designed for a fixed life. Plus of course, radiation bombards the materials with particles and degrades it that way as well as the rust and other stuff it has to deal with.

Some of these nuclear plants are over 50 years old and yet their life is extended and extended over and over again past the sell-by date it was designed for. We ate still told they are safe to operate - what do you think?

No-one wants to comment on this, but there IS another source of energy. It is the energy used by the UFO/UAP craft flying about in the sky without wings and which is used by the military. It is not nuclear and it is not wind powered. WHEN they release it, then we may have a cleaner source of energy.

[Wee-Bey]

Originally Posted by TMSRetired

So if everything in the world morphs into running from electricity how do you propose generating that huge amount of electricity to power the world 24/7/365 ??

The electricity comes from the butts of unicorns in great gushing lgbtq+ rainbows of magic green power. Straight into those things that make your Tesla run for free and the rainforest bloom.

[ocpaul20]

Originally Posted by 303Guy

900 tons of nuclear waste you say? Just to keep that in perspective, we humans produce some 35 billion tons of carbon emission per year. If you say it quickly, it doesn't sound a lot but say it slowly ... You get what I mean. 900 tons is not a lot and it isn't actually doing anything. And don't forget, we didn't make the nuclear waste. All we did was dig it out of the earth and extract energy from it. It was always there. Only now there is less of it.

How wrong is that. We dig it up, then REFINE AND CONCENTRATE IT. We make it more dangerous so we can use it in nuclear power plants. It is a real problem to dispose of this stuff because it is so radioactive.

Currently it is stored long-term either in a glass-like material or in dry casks, much of that in casks are on-site. Even at Hanford processing plant they have problems with leakage of radioactive materials. The casks will not last the thousands of years needed for it to degrade to harmless elements and no-one wants nuclear dumping ground next to or anywhere near their homes as it would affect the price of property in that area.

How do you tell people 1000 years in the future that in this area there is dangerous toxic waste? However well you have buried it, you do not know what they will be doing in 1000 years and some of these elements have half-lives of tens and hundreds of thousands of years.