Posted on 06/04/2019 7:29:45 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Edited on 06/04/2019 10:13:39 AM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
Why do the eco-nuts who propose these murdering monstrosities despise Mother Earth? Isn’t the a tad of irony here? What idiots.
But it doesn’t.
All it does is shift which traits are most important for survival.
Gen 1 and Gen2 nuclear are unsafe. Gen 1 doesn’t exist anywhere anymore. Gen 3 has never had an incident and is safe. Gen 4 is even safer and can’t meltdown and can consume other waste from Gen2 and 3. Nuclear IS the future, but will America be part of it?
Interesting side note: there’s a lot of thorium in the mine tailings for rare earth elements. Mildly radioactive tailings are a problem for US producers, not so much for the Chinese. Thorium reactors could change the equation, make the tailings valuable.
Chernobyl was designed like a bomb. It had a positive feedback “feature”, meaning that in an loss of control as the reactor core got hotter and more water turned into steam the number of nuclear reactions actually increased, leading to an actual nuclear explosion, which is what happened.
American and all other countries reactors were designed to shut down the nuclear reaction (negative feedback) in case of loss of control. That is why 3 mile Island was so mild compared to Chernobyl.
Because thorium is still fission, and the problem of what to do with the radwaste still exists. Thorium isn't the panacea it is being sold as. (Note...I took my minor courses on my way to my chemistry PhD in nuclear chem...this was in the days when fission reactors looked like THE answer). Unfortunately, the KGB-funded green movement won that propaganda war and killed the US civilian atomic power effort (precisely as intended).
Oh, bull-bleep. The land under and around the windmills is still perfectly usable. The cattle probably enjoy the whooshing sound of the windmill blades, and the corn and wheat don't care.
No, Chernobyl and TMI, except for both being nuclear power plants, were completely different in design and cause.
Chernobyl was destroyed by operator error at the end of reactor testing where the procedure was willfully violated. A steam explosion caused by prompt criticality blew the top of the reactor off.
TMI happened due to a reactor scram, followed by a normal lifting of a steam relief valve on the pressurizer that did NOT reseat, resulting in a sustained loss of coolant/cooling to the reactor core. Operator error played its part in that coolant injection was secured despite indications requiring it to remain in operation. Without cooling, the core was exposed and melted.
Approximately ten years ago there was a big whoopdedoo when Saudi Arabia announced interest in a grid of thorium reactors that were to be supplied (as I recall) by Japan. I have waited, but no longer hold my breath.
I wouldn’t call it a nuclear explosion. The Chernobyl explsion was more like the world’s biggest “dirty bomb” going off (it was a conventional explosion that spread a lot of radioactive fallout around).
Yes, the RBMK reactor at Chernobyl had a fairly big positive void coefficient (horrible design). Whereas BWR and PWR designs in the U.S. have a negative void coefficient. Since the water in BWR and PWR reactors act as the moderator, the more steam there is, the less neutrons get slowed down, and the reactivity dives south.
Maybe, maybe not.
https://www.sciencealert.com/report-analysis-steam-explosion-cause-of-chernobyl-disaster-wrong
Watch the seried “Occupied.”
BOOKbump
wind farms are a sure fire investment and essentially cash machines for the elites.
Goverment subsidies to build, gvoerment forces the utilities to buy the product whether needed or not.
The consumenr gets hit with taxs fees and uncertain electricity production.
Whats not to like?
The Norweign series OCCUPIED discusses Thiorum generators.
Hell even the Scandinavians think it is a good idea.
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