Fukushima ping for the downside and a big + for a technology that generates waste that is *lethal* for 100 human generations.
I’d rather sit in the dark than glow in the dark.
Can it be safe? Likely. On a coastal setting? Don’t think so.
I think that thorium based reactors do not produce the waste as other reactor types do, however, envirowackos who rule the swamp have made such a critter impossible to build.
open Yucca Mountain and name it after Harry Reid and Obama
That’s like saying “because one house burns down go live in a cave”. Instead, we learn from examples like Fukushima that violated every precept of failsafe engineering and build far better, safer, more reliable plants in the future. Like those around Houston.
Fukushima was one of plants built from the first GE design. Lots of changes have happened since including retrofit modifications in this country.
Fukushima is exactly right - Do journalist figure history started this morning when they got up. For god sakes the tsunami was just several years ago.
I mean how much fish are you eating these days from the pacific?
Or for a future nuclear disaster coming to a state near you. Hanford is a slow moving catastrophe that is a natural disaster - strong thunderstorm??? from all those tanks of waste leaving their extremely rusty home in search of the - Columbia River - oh that is gonna be sweet.
I have a rectanguler cube of carbon from the first ever nuclear reactor the Chicago Pile-1, which achieved criticality on December 2, 1942 somewhere around here . I was told the scientists were very excited because they had numerous schemes they wanted to experiment with but the very first reactor method worked. I wonder what has happened to all those other schemes. So far nothing very safe or not toxic has seemed to been developed.
Do some research on Thorium Reactors.