[little jeremiah]

I did a bunch of research (on my level of course) a while ago.

There are pools and pools cooling off spent fuel rods which remain dangerously radioactive for vast numbers of years. THere is no where to put them. They require cold water circulating 24/7 for years. Nuke plants create large amounts of radioactive waste - like the water, suits, tools, and so forth - there is no place to put it, either.

Coal and hydro are the very best. Climate crap greenies etc hate hydro, too!

[Tennessee Conservative]

The main thing that worries me about the nuclear plant by me are the signs all over that part of the river that warn you not to eat fish out of it. I don’t worry as much about it melting down as I do about people that are eating the fish. They have pulled a lot of badly mutated aquatic life out of that river.

[LastDayz]

“There are pools and pools cooling off spent fuel rods which remain dangerously radioactive for vast numbers of years. THere is no where to put them.”

I had read somewhere a few years ago that Thorium Reactors could utilize the spent fuel rods of a nuclear reactor. Not sure about the accuracy of that as I’m just a hillbilly from Central Texas.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

Nuke plants create large amounts of radioactive waste - like the water, suits, tools, and so forth - there is no place to put it, either.

There are a couple of options:

France recycles their fuel rods, by "recharging" them instead of eternal storage.

We need to be looking at Thorium reactors...a fairly benign version of nuclear power.