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You sure can. I think his point is still valid. Nuclear disasters are unique in that the damage from then tends to last FAR longer then the damage from any othe
by bioh42_2 16y ago
You sure can. I think his point is still valid. Nuclear disasters are unique in that the damage from then tends to last FAR longer then the damage from any other type of disaster.
- fleitz 16y agoPeople still live near three mile island.
- asdkl234890 16y agoThat accident was safely contained.
- landhar 16y agoI agree, and even without nuclear disasters, no human society has ever lasted for as long as nuclear waste must be looked after.
- fleitz 16y agoNuclear waste is a US only issue. It doesn't exist in any other country. Buy some CANDU reactors from Canada and you can burn your nuclear waste for energy.
- schrototo 16y agoYou can't be serious... nuclear waste is a huge issue in pretty much every country that has nuclear power plants. Half of Germany goes insane every time there is a transport of nuclear waste from one temporary storage location to another.
- patrickyeon 16y agoThe parent comment to yours is serious. CANDU reactors can run off fuel that is considered 'waste' from light water reactors. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candu#Fuel_cycles http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candu#Fuel_cycles
- kiujhgtfghjk 16y agoEvery other nuclear power reprocesses their waste into fuel. The reason the US doesn't is partly nimby-ism and partly strategic, waste contains plutonium and if we need to make more nukes to fight the commies we will be glad we didn't reprocess it all.
- patrickyeon 16y agoCANDU doesn't chemically re-process it (no purification). It just physically breaks it up into fuel rods that it can use. A CANDU reactor can run on unprocessed, raw (just-pulled-it-out-of-the-ground) uranium, which light water reactors cannot do without chemical reprocessing.