Posted on 11/26/2022 9:16:00 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Not to worry. The generations of people following us will be thrilled to work at managing the nuclear waste we bequeath them
So build some new ones.
“So build new ones.”
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Absolutely.
Ever heard of re-cycling?
They are better at it these days.
Just got to keep the Karens ignorant of that.
They aren’t too bright.
Have you ever read Larry Niven's and Jerry Pournell's treatise on recycling nuclear waste? Its a real hoot.
1 - Mint coins out of it. Bank robbers could be apprehended before the crime because they would enter the bank wearing a protective suit.
2 - Following the coin idea, we could pay international debts using ICBMs.
It was a long list.
No clue.
I think of the half life of nuke waste. Tens of thousands of years.
Of course they would be...the USA was first to start building any.
Glad to live in Georgia where we will have a new one come on line in 2023, and another in 2024.
We made a mistake at Chernobyl. We'll probably make another mistake like that in 100 years from now. That said, environmentalists want us to stop using fossil fuels. Nuclear energy is the only way it works that can make everyone happy.
No! Link? I love those guys.
Pournelle should have been in charge of Bush’s response to 9/11. We’d be massively energy independent, we’d have built dozens of nuclear plants and space power satellites, and drilled, baby, drilled!
Yup. The woketards make it really, really hard to make a new reactor. The thorium salt ones would be awesome to replace if we could. However the best would be the semi truck sized reactor the folks at Rolls-Royce are developing for powering England for the commercial market. We already have the tech but the United States navy controls those reactors and don’t play well with others.
Imagine if the greenies hadn’t been radically anti-nuke for a generation. How much less carbon would’ve been released?
bttt
Climate cult wants them shutdown ?
The leftards won’t let us build new ones.
“think of the half life of nuke waste.”
But the volume is miniscule. Our total amount since the 1950’s would cover a football field to 10 feet high.
The thorium salt reactors can expend the current pile of nuclear waste. Without risk of going critical or meltdowns. And the thorium is currently cheaper than worthless, yet abundant. Mine it and you get valuable ‘rare earth’ minerals. Currently the US equation is flipped: mine rare minerals and you’re stuck with radioactive waste (the thorium) which under our greenie rules costs more to store than the alternative of buying rare earth minerals from the Chicoms.
The photo is of cooling towers, not nuclear reactors
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