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Big mistake. The US nuclear industry is a wreck because of the lack of standardization and economies of scale, unlike, say, France. India should also be invest

by fmajid 8y ago

Big mistake. The US nuclear industry is a wreck because of the lack of standardization and economies of scale, unlike, say, France. India should also be investing in thorium reactors given its indigenous reserves and the inherent safety advantages. Another issue is cooling: water supplies in Andhra Pradesh are highly erratic, and this will only get worse with global warming.

sjwright 8y ago
The water lost to cooling ends up as steam and then precipitation. So it doesn't exactly delete water, it just disperses it. Some of it will fall straight back into the same river systems. A lot of it would probably be absorbed into the local water table—which is valuable if the table is already being tapped. Does anyone know if there's any modelling to show how widely such activity disperses water? How much of the water is expected to land somewhere functionally useless (e.g. into oceans)? Or, if they built a desalination plant next to each nuclear plant, would they be able to compensate for the water loss efficiently?
- adrianN 8y ago
  The trouble with nuclear in regions where water can be scarce is that you can't cool your plant sufficiently and have to turn it off. You can take only a small fraction of a river's flow for cooling without kill all fish in the river. If the river is low on water, your plant can't be cooled.
throwwarm 8y ago
About Thorium- Subramanyam Swamy agrees- I wonder why there isn't more research on this, despite BJP being in the center and Modi seemingly listening to him. The president of United States of America is on record saying Global warming is a hoax (asterisk), a fact he has repeated multiple times in his online communications on the micro-blogging website twitter.com [1], thereby throwing his full weight behind the claims. (asterisk) A chinese hoax but the chinese part was before the said person became the president. I am not sure if he has skipped the Chinese part in his post inauguration communication for matters of international relationships or because he has changed his opinion on the origins of the hoax. [1] https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump. Greenpeace cofounder says that while the president is wrong and that earth is indeed getting hotter- people-made climate change is indeed a hoax and that people have no contribution to global warming. (or it's d/dx, or d2,dx2) I'm not sure whom to listen to but either way, I would say that since peoplekind is not responsible, then it's God's will and in that case we shouldn't worry about it.
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by fmajid 8y ago

sjwright 8y ago

The water lost to cooling ends up as steam and then precipitation. So it doesn't exactly delete water, it just disperses it. Some of it will fall straight back into the same river systems. A lot of it would probably be absorbed into the local water table—which is valuable if the table is already being tapped. Does anyone know if there's any modelling to show how widely such activity disperses water? How much of the water is expected to land somewhere functionally useless (e.g. into oceans)? Or, if they built a desalination plant next to each nuclear plant, would they be able to compensate for the water loss efficiently?

adrianN 8y ago
The trouble with nuclear in regions where water can be scarce is that you can't cool your plant sufficiently and have to turn it off. You can take only a small fraction of a river's flow for cooling without kill all fish in the river. If the river is low on water, your plant can't be cooled.

throwwarm 8y ago

About Thorium- Subramanyam Swamy agrees- I wonder why there isn't more research on this, despite BJP being in the center and Modi seemingly listening to him. The president of United States of America is on record saying Global warming is a hoax (asterisk), a fact he has repeated multiple times in his online communications on the micro-blogging website twitter.com [1], thereby throwing his full weight behind the claims. (asterisk) A chinese hoax but the chinese part was before the said person became the president. I am not sure if he has skipped the Chinese part in his post inauguration communication for matters of international relationships or because he has changed his opinion on the origins of the hoax. [1] https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump. Greenpeace cofounder says that while the president is wrong and that earth is indeed getting hotter- people-made climate change is indeed a hoax and that people have no contribution to global warming. (or it's d/dx, or d2,dx2) I'm not sure whom to listen to but either way, I would say that since peoplekind is not responsible, then it's God's will and in that case we shouldn't worry about it.

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