We don’t even know how to dispose of nuclear waste safely.
Nuclear power feels like a little kid behind the wheel of a Lamborghini in a crowded plaza.
Spent nuclear fuel rods can be recycled into new fuel. Except Jimmy Carter outlawed doing that.
Lift that, and most of the nuclear waste issue goes away.
Sure we do, we call them Breeder Reactors, see Nuclear Submarine.
“We don’t even know how to dispose of nuclear waste safely.”
We do!
Breeder reactors?
We KNOW where and how, in Yucca Mountain, and the WIPP facility near Carlsbad, New Mexico.
We would have been up and running years ago, if Harry Reid hadn't blocked it until he could figure out how to profit off the site. His son owns big chunks of desert that the road to it would be built over.
One other point. And a Biggie.
Just because we don't recycle all the spent fuel NOW, does not mean we should bury it beyond access. It can be dangerous to chemically recycle, and a list of nuclear industrial accidents bears that out.
Besides, Carter didn't want breeder reactors, since, while they actually create nuclear fuel, the fuel is usable for weapons. The same guy, a f#$king Democrat, who walked us into the gas shortage, the Double Nickle, and the Iran Hostage crisis. Carter did a lot of damage in four years. That was when people still trusted presidents.
One of those industrial accidents, SL-1, one Ensign Carter worked on cleaning up, back in the early 50's.
You are absolutely 100% incorrect. It’s called a breader reactor, it processes spent fuel into fresh new fuel. We know how to make and operate them. We just don’t because of the anti nuclear crowd.
Harry Reid stopped that with the help of Obama.
Nuclear power feels like a little kid behind the wheel of a Lamborghini in a crowded plaza.
That would be putting it mildly but you are very much on the right track.
My main objection, too. Uranium based waste is nasty for a couple of hundred thousand years. But, I understand thorium based nuclear bypasses this.
Nuclear power feels like a little kid behind the wheel of a Lamborghini in a crowded plaza.
Haha, that reminds me. A science teacher I had back in the ‘70’s once said that a piece of nuclear material the size of an English pea will run a 200 horse power motor for 10 years.