Be glad you don't live in Japan Friday

Cleo · 2011-03-17, 12:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Toby

The only issue I have with building more nuclear plants is the disposal of the spent fuel. They still haven't figured that out, and in the mean time, it sits in pools accumulating.

I think there is already a solution, big hole deep underground, but the public won't agree on anything so as a result it sits in "temporally" pools.

Bill · 2011-03-17, 07:26 PM

The small format reactors are interesting, but I've yet to see really convincing working prototypes - has anyone else?

I thought the pebble bed reactor concept was interesting too.

As I understood it tho, uranium is the limiting factor for a nuclear electricity economy. There's enough uranium for a while, but of we wanted to produce planetary scale amounts of nuclear electricity the struggle for uranium would relatively quickly mirror the current competition for oil.

The proposed solution is a plutonium economy based on breeder reactors - and a plutonium economy has a lot of scary problems asscoiated with it.

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2011-03-17, 07:26 PM	#2
Bill Selling porn allows me to stay in a constant state of Bliss - ain't that a trip! Join Date: Apr 2003 Posts: 3,914	The small format reactors are interesting, but I've yet to see really convincing working prototypes - has anyone else? I thought the pebble bed reactor concept was interesting too. As I understood it tho, uranium is the limiting factor for a nuclear electricity economy. There's enough uranium for a while, but of we wanted to produce planetary scale amounts of nuclear electricity the struggle for uranium would relatively quickly mirror the current competition for oil. The proposed solution is a plutonium economy based on breeder reactors - and a plutonium economy has a lot of scary problems asscoiated with it.