Posted on 05/19/2024 2:55:09 PM PDT by Twotone
Anti-nuke people often like to claim that storage of nuclear waste is the reason for not building more nuclear plants.
The nuclear industry in the U.S. produces about 4000 tons of waste per year. That may seem like a lot but, consider that we produce about 275 MILLION tons of non-nuclear, bio and chemical hazardous waste. That is about 70,000 times more than nuclear waste. But do we shut down the bio and chemical industries for that?
Also, people worry about the long lifetimes of some of the nuclear waste. But the lifetime is the inverse of the decay rate. Materials with long lifetimes are not very radioactive, and materials that are very radioactive, have very short lifetimes. Meanwhile, bio and chemical hazardous waste can be hazardous for ever.
Was HerrDoktor FauciMengeleGates in the vicinty ?
Had the breeder reactor been commercialized, it would have cut the waste to a fraction of what light water reactors (which were chosen on Rickovers advice)produce. Also, Jimmah banned the re-processing of fuel rods due to proliferation concerns. As far as I know, the ban is still in effect.
Good article, but it is assumes that the intentions of the agencies regulating nuclear power are good. TPTB are using energy policy as a political weapon.
Sure, just like you claim “nobody is being forced to buy electric vehicles” and “nobody is banning ICE”
You remind me of Obama: “you can build all the coal plants you want, you just won’t make any money”
I bet you claim Biden has no open borders policy
The big attack on nuclear power is by wind and solor people. They are exagerating the danger in alomost any way they can for the profitibility of their product versus nuclear power.
An example is California. They are scheduled to shut down their last reator next year while they are being forced to buy power from states all over the west because they can’t stay up with the need.
But nuclear power is being used more and more because of growth and it is drawing from those states still with reactors. And with the failure of the grids to handle the needs, the unlikely use of wind and power, especially with the lies they throw, is becoming a non entity. It can’t stay with the advancing requirement and the cost will be passed on to the users with a failing future.
The only state that has been able to operate without nuclear power is Hawaii but they have started legislation to change that this year. The pinch is on as the islands develope.
wy69
Clearly you are way over-qualified to be a GOP Senator.
And also 100% correct!
Sobering reality of “Follow the Science “ corruption going back to the first anti-nuclear debates in 1946.
(Be interesting to find out if the Linear NO Threshold “ advocates and theorists were “just” making their reputations and their power and their careers by promoting their theory. Or were they also getting money and political and bureaucratic support and research money from the Soviet Union and its “science” via Comintern-KGB.
But the US nuclear fuel recycling programs were never refunded. They remain stagnant. Deliberately.
There are storage containers at Oak Ridge National Lab that are filled with material waste that could be recycled for power production. Enough for 700 years of power production...if they could ever get it reprocessed.
That's what certain people want you to think. The same people who also hate coal, oil, natural gas, and the human species ...
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