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Its more dishonest to say that the world has the capacity or the ability today to build and run 10000s of nuclear reactors safely or dispose of the spent nuclea

Its more dishonest to say that the world has the capacity or the ability today to build and run 10000s of nuclear reactors safely or dispose of the spent nuclear fuel. We would be producing 100000-200000Mton of nuclear waste a year at today electricity usage levels.

Paradigma11 3y ago
It would still be the same few holes in the ground that we have to secure. Nobody cares how many Mton are stored below.
- xbmcuser 3y ago
  Like I said people are telling tall tales who say Nuclear solves the problem. The world does not have the capacity or the ability to store or use 100000mton of Nuclear fuel safely. That's just nuclear fuel rods the multiple times that the other nuclear waste that will be generated I am not even counting. I think most of the nuclear zealots are engineers which don't look at reality just the math. I personally think nuclear has a part to play but not the current technology
RagnarD 3y ago
A large fraction of "spent" nuclear fuel is unfissioned Uranium that can (and should) be recycled. France does this. It's a fact of physics that the more radioactive is a material, the faster it decays. The most dangerous isotopes decay in years, not centuries or millenia. One stunning fact, originating in the incredible energy density of e=mc^2, is: "If we take that a step further, U.S. commercial reactors have generated about 90,000 metric tons of spent fuel since the 1950s. If all of it were able to be stacked together, it could fit on a single football field at a depth of less than 10 yards." Now ponder how much coal ash and CO2 has been released into the atmosphere since the 1950s (!!!) And more than that: how many heavy metals with an infinite half-life have been sent into the atmosphere by such burning and settled into the ground including agricultural soil. Nuclear waste is a gigantic straw-man. It's a manufactured issue by environmentalists who've wanted to kill nuclear for decades. Moreover, it's likely that Helion will create the first commercially viable fusion reactor in a small number of years. Once that happens, it becomes even better than fission. https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/5-fast-facts-about-spent-nuclear-fuel https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/5-fast-facts-about-spent-...

Paradigma11 3y ago

It would still be the same few holes in the ground that we have to secure. Nobody cares how many Mton are stored below.

xbmcuser 3y ago
Like I said people are telling tall tales who say Nuclear solves the problem. The world does not have the capacity or the ability to store or use 100000mton of Nuclear fuel safely. That's just nuclear fuel rods the multiple times that the other nuclear waste that will be generated I am not even counting. I think most of the nuclear zealots are engineers which don't look at reality just the math. I personally think nuclear has a part to play but not the current technology

RagnarD 3y ago

A large fraction of "spent" nuclear fuel is unfissioned Uranium that can (and should) be recycled. France does this. It's a fact of physics that the more radioactive is a material, the faster it decays. The most dangerous isotopes decay in years, not centuries or millenia. One stunning fact, originating in the incredible energy density of e=mc^2, is: "If we take that a step further, U.S. commercial reactors have generated about 90,000 metric tons of spent fuel since the 1950s. If all of it were able to be stacked together, it could fit on a single football field at a depth of less than 10 yards." Now ponder how much coal ash and CO2 has been released into the atmosphere since the 1950s (!!!) And more than that: how many heavy metals with an infinite half-life have been sent into the atmosphere by such burning and settled into the ground including agricultural soil. Nuclear waste is a gigantic straw-man. It's a manufactured issue by environmentalists who've wanted to kill nuclear for decades. Moreover, it's likely that Helion will create the first commercially viable fusion reactor in a small number of years. Once that happens, it becomes even better than fission. https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/5-fast-facts-about-spent-nuclear-fuel https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/5-fast-facts-about-spent-...