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I am pretty bullish on.........the future of NUCLEAR POWER
Posted on: May 22, 2023 at 13:53:05 CT
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we are probably at least 20-30 years from it being even moderately available but we currently have technology that
1) reuses already spent nuclear waste and breaks it down into less toxic waste that degenerates in 500 years compared to hundreds of thousands -and who knows what another 20-30 years of research will bring
1B) we currently have about 1000 years of such waste so essentially no more mining is required
2) runs at lower temperature and lower pressures making them much safer and extremely unlikely to blow up on their own,
3) they can be built underground -reinforcing the point 2 even more so.
4) and this is as yuge as point one- NO nuclear grade
waste is produced in this process.
This eliminates the most significant opposition to nuclear that us intelligent America lovers have had.
There are still two problems 1) it will be much more expensive but when all things are considered (which of course they are not in our crazy capitalist accounting)
it really wont be that bad
2) transporting of the waste to such plants. That is a significant risk but one that I think can be overcome with an abundant amount of burdensome regulations.
There is a new generation of nuke plant that just received approval last year but it is already obsolete as it does not reuse spent waste. it took them about 15 years and tens of billions of dollars to get to that point, I wonder is they can somehow be converted to reuse spent waste but I can't find anything in that regard.
Kind of makes you wonder why republicans hate science so much, but I would expect them to have some sort of political hatred of this solution.
1) reuses already spent nuclear waste and breaks it down into less toxic waste that degenerates in 500 years compared to hundreds of thousands -and who knows what another 20-30 years of research will bring
1B) we currently have about 1000 years of such waste so essentially no more mining is required
2) runs at lower temperature and lower pressures making them much safer and extremely unlikely to blow up on their own,
3) they can be built underground -reinforcing the point 2 even more so.
4) and this is as yuge as point one- NO nuclear grade
waste is produced in this process.
This eliminates the most significant opposition to nuclear that us intelligent America lovers have had.
There are still two problems 1) it will be much more expensive but when all things are considered (which of course they are not in our crazy capitalist accounting)
it really wont be that bad
2) transporting of the waste to such plants. That is a significant risk but one that I think can be overcome with an abundant amount of burdensome regulations.
There is a new generation of nuke plant that just received approval last year but it is already obsolete as it does not reuse spent waste. it took them about 15 years and tens of billions of dollars to get to that point, I wonder is they can somehow be converted to reuse spent waste but I can't find anything in that regard.
Kind of makes you wonder why republicans hate science so much, but I would expect them to have some sort of political hatred of this solution.
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I am pretty bullish on.........the future of NUCLEAR POWER - JG A - 5/22 13:53:05