Hey Mike, @ShellenbergerMD I'm just a dumb (+ lazy) guy who stumbled onto your page. Has the problem/danger of nuclear waste been resolved and will you briefly explain in laymen's terms? (I understand from @ScottAdamsSays that meltdown is no longer a danger)
Muchas Gracias!
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The US very much has resolved the meltdown issue. We have very strict building standards, and take into account all kinds of natural disaster threats. We also have the ability to burn some spent fuel as Scott says. The future is nuclear, the sooner we realize that the better.
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Breeder reactors. Good read here, especially on efficiency (on how little of the potential energy current reactor designs utilize, and how much potential energy is left unused (as nuclear waste). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breeder_reactor …
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France already recycles spent fuel. 95% of the material in a spent fuel rod is still fissile material and can be reused once the 5% impure waste is removed. This makes the amount of long half-life waste relatively small.
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Or use thorium reactors. You need a lot less of it, and its lifetime radioactivity is 1/10th less than uranium. Oh, and its not fissile. You can't make it go boom or melt down a reactor.
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When will we get thorium reactors?
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Most countries (80% of the nuke fleet) just bury it in Geologically safe repositories underground. Pres. Carter mandated that USA be able to retrieve/reprocess in future, causing the 40 years of political angst.
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Just don't build them on the windward side of islands subject to tsunamis.
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High-level weapons waste is buried at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in New Mexico in salt caverns that will eventually encase the waste.
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The French perfected the nuclear fuel cycle decades ago. The issue isn’t technology or safety. It is environmental activists who oppose nuclear in unreasoning terror. Logic does not enter the discussion. They are stuck in the “Silent Spring” movie.
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CANDU Reactors as an example can burn spent waste.
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