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Chernobyl or Fukushima, or the numerous minor incidents But yes um also all for nuclear until fusion reactors are better, especially salt /thorium reactors And

Chernobyl or Fukushima, or the numerous minor incidents But yes um also all for nuclear until fusion reactors are better, especially salt /thorium reactors And more focus to turn usable waste to RTGs etc

mikkom 7y ago
Bill gates documentary on Netflix was really, really interesting and touches this. Even made me appreciate Bill Gates which I didn't think was possible because of Windows :-) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10837476/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10837476/ Basically all the reactors involved in the incidents are based on very old technology and had design problems (which is not surprising as the technology and science was new at the time these were built - fukushima 1971, chernobyl 1977). What we really should do is to work on reactors whose main functionality is to provide energy with extremely minimal possibility for meltdown. It's too bad that even with resources of Gates it seems to be impossible to advance the nuclear technology - I see it as the main way to save our planet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TerraPower https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TerraPower https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/a25728221/terrapower-china-bill-gates-trump/ https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/a25728221/te...
- goatinaboat 7y ago
  It must be a deliberate tactic of the anti-nuclear lobby, to simultaneously block new reactors being built and complain that old reactors are obsolete. There is no other explanation that makes sense!
cuillevel3 7y ago
Germany did have a thorium based reactor, it had multiple incidents and was never profitable. It was only online for two years and was eventually torn down. Well, the cooling tower was, they still have to wait for the reactor to lose it's radioactivity. Check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/THTR-300 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/THTR-300
- lispm 7y ago
  It was closed by the industry itself, because it was unreliable and not profitable.
- Gibbon1 7y ago
  Long time ago there were utterly rosy predictions how simple and safe pebble bed reactors would be. Then they built that thing. I have this theory that the conventional wisdom is wrong. The people that designed the basic reactor design used to day were very very smart and had lots of resources. And that the best design they could come up with. Since then all the other proposed designs come from pollyanna B team types.

mikkom 7y ago

Bill gates documentary on Netflix was really, really interesting and touches this. Even made me appreciate Bill Gates which I didn't think was possible because of Windows :-) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10837476/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10837476/ Basically all the reactors involved in the incidents are based on very old technology and had design problems (which is not surprising as the technology and science was new at the time these were built - fukushima 1971, chernobyl 1977). What we really should do is to work on reactors whose main functionality is to provide energy with extremely minimal possibility for meltdown. It's too bad that even with resources of Gates it seems to be impossible to advance the nuclear technology - I see it as the main way to save our planet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TerraPower https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TerraPower https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/a25728221/terrapower-china-bill-gates-trump/ https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/a25728221/te...

goatinaboat 7y ago
It must be a deliberate tactic of the anti-nuclear lobby, to simultaneously block new reactors being built and complain that old reactors are obsolete. There is no other explanation that makes sense!

cuillevel3 7y ago

Germany did have a thorium based reactor, it had multiple incidents and was never profitable. It was only online for two years and was eventually torn down. Well, the cooling tower was, they still have to wait for the reactor to lose it's radioactivity. Check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/THTR-300 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/THTR-300

lispm 7y ago
It was closed by the industry itself, because it was unreliable and not profitable.
Gibbon1 7y ago
Long time ago there were utterly rosy predictions how simple and safe pebble bed reactors would be. Then they built that thing. I have this theory that the conventional wisdom is wrong. The people that designed the basic reactor design used to day were very very smart and had lots of resources. And that the best design they could come up with. Since then all the other proposed designs come from pollyanna B team types.