[editor-surveyor]

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No, uranium is trouble density.

We lack the ability to live with the consequences of nuclear energy; that should be stupendously obvious to everyone by now.

Fukushima and Chernobyl are small examples of what living with uranium is all about.
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[Paladin2]

Let’s try Thorium...

[Pontiac]

We lack the ability to live with the consequences of nuclear energy; that should be stupendously obvious to everyone by now.

I feel alive.

Fukushima and Chernobyl are small examples of what living with uranium is all about.

The Fukushima reactors are an old design (1950’s) to which the Japanese failed to make improvements and updates that similar reactors in the US have.

Chernobyl a very bad design Soviet design which was operated outside of its design bases. Chernobyl not similar to any US designed commercial plant.

Since Fukushima the Nuclear Power Plants in the US have made a lot of site improvements to make them better able to survive Beyond Design Bases Events.

Using these plants to plaster nuclear plants in the US as unsafe is reasoning more at home on the Mother Earth News website.

[Ozark Tom]

Light Water Reactors are a military development shoehorned into commercial service. They require military precision in executing the procedures for operation, to achieve a proper safety record. Unfortunately, the corporate world has different priorities; and, runs operations to achieve a divergent set of objectives.

The fuel dissolved in a molten salt carrier variant of reactor was operated in the 50’s through the late 60’s at the Oak Ridge, Tennessee National Lab facility. Last man out of the lab Friday afternoon basically pulled-the-plug, and like bathwater down the drain, sent the fuel into a storage tank over the weekend. Monday morning the fuel was returned to the reactor core, allowing resumption of operation for the weeks work. Control and safety were inherent in the design.

Relative to the LWR, the MSR didn’t conserve enough of the generated plutonium to support a weapons program. Also, the LWR had time to develop a cadre of entrenched support between industry seeking to cash in on civilian projects; and, former military holding influential regulatory postings. Alvin Weinberg’s development wasn’t favored in this circle.

http://moltensalt.org/references/static/downloads/pdf/NAT_MSRintro.pdf

[infool7]

No, uranium is trouble density.

Maybe for Russia and Japan but the US has a great track record especially the US Navy.
Do you suggest we go back to burning dung and living in caves?