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That's great. You know how expensive it is to get rid of radiactive material. It this comes true the big power plants can just dump the waste into the river and
by unique_parrot2 10y ago
That's great. You know how expensive it is to get rid of radiactive material. It this comes true the big power plants can just dump the waste into the river and say "It wasn't me".
I would not want to live next to such a thing.
- i_feel_great 10y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_geological_repository https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_geological_repository
- einrealist 10y agoAnd? There is no repository in the world available, that is either guaranteed to be secure for thousands of years of accepted by the population. Also putting it in the earth has one huge disadvantage: You cannot get it back if something goes wrong. I can recommend this documentation about the waste disposal problem http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2979302/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2979302/
- tremon 10y agoThere is no repository in the world available, that is either guaranteed to be secure for thousands of years of accepted by the population. But we would have no need for "thousands of years" if the development of nuclear reactors is allowed to advance. Fast breeder reactors can use our current "waste" as fuel, leaving only stable and short-halflife isotopes as waste.
- kuschku 10y agoLet’s look at the German Asse II and Schacht Konrad. We deposited lots of nuclear waste, and years later discovered it was leaking into the tap water. Now we have to dig it all back up.
- marak830 10y agoMaybe someone here can inform me, howuch does the waste weigh? Would it be viable to launch it into space then send it on a course to the sun?
- tremon 10y agoI don't think anyone wants to take the risk of having the launch vessel explode while still in the atmosphere.
- wiredfool 10y agoIt's easier/less deltaV to send things out of the solar system than it is to hit the sun. (Basically, to hit the sun, you have to scrub out all/most of the velocity from the Earth's orbit, or what you've done is put your waste in an orbit around the Sun that may intersect the Earth's at some point in the future)
- musesum 10y agoHere's one startup that is using a design that can convert spent fuel: http://www.transatomicpower.com/the-science/ http://www.transatomicpower.com/the-science/ Plenty of retiring Nuclear plants. Just do a conversion on the same real-estate and use the waste as fuel. [EDIT] For a deep dive into Thorium, check out any one of the "Thorium Remix" vids: http://thoriumremix.com/2015/ http://thoriumremix.com/2015/
- musesum 10y agoHere's a list of other Gen IV reactor companies/projects (from Thorium Remix 2016): Terrestrial Energy, Flibe Energy, Molten Energy, Transatomic, ThorCon Power, Copenhagen Atomics, Seaborg, Chinese Academy Of Sciences. I uprooted unique_parrot2's comment, as it reflected my view about nuclear power, up until last year. Here is the documentary that changed my mind: http://pandoraspromise.com http://pandoraspromise.com