Climate and Weather
- Thread starter espola
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What Im concerned about, is the lack of serious planning, or ability to deal with nuclear waste.
Whether its a regulatory hang up, or a governmental can down the road problem, I dont know, but something as serious as nuclear energy should be planned in a way that ties up all the loose ends.
And that is the essence of your "debate".
Wez
DA
...and that kids, is how Trump became President.
I have a bottle of potassium iodide tablets in my medicine chest - useful in fringe events, although at my age probably pointless.
I got caught in one of the traffic jams caused by moving the old steam generators out of San Onofre a few years ago, using all 4 lanes of I-5 South for a distance. If they can move something like that, they can move the spent fuel casks to Nevada with less risk than leaving them on a cliff above the Pacific Ocean, in a dedsignated tsunami zone.
Wez
DA
On that we agree, and his came with a gigantic middle finger. Human molotov...
Youd be better off with an extra set of diapers.
EvilGoalie 21
GOLD
Its interesting. Nuclear energy has been quiescent enough as an issue that it hasn't been completely blown beyond rationality by propaganda and the culture wars. At least not yet.
EvilGoalie 21
GOLD
Getting it down in the subduction zone doesn't sound straightforward....and it would be slow. Don't think the mantle's hot enough to melt the uranium oxide, certainly wouldn't change the isotope decay. But I guess the idea would be to pulverize it and dilute it-sort of unenrich it.
Another idea would be to dump it deep down into the bowels of Mt. Trump. Was reading "Grinch" tonight to kid-must be where idea came from. "top of Mt. Krumpit....tiptop to dump it". Trump's NPD magma chambers are inexhaustibly empty and go way way down into the core. Enough heat and pressure to ramp up the efficiency of the fission process and finish it out at a nice steady bubble? Maybe. Or perhaps it would release heat so fast there'd be this massive Twitterstorm eruption that would leave the internet radioactive and unusable for generations. I guess we'd just have to try it and see.
EvilGoalie 21
GOLD
On second thought, the way that old rooster crows sounds like he's already got a problem with a spent rod.
Hüsker Dü
DA
Seeing as they will just bury that stuff right there at Old Man's then plow the plant down to make it all look like it was never there? Our grandkids will be camping there . . .
Hüsker Dü
DA
Who told you to question that particular science? Possibly those that would benefit most from it's denial?
Bruddah IZ
DA
Bruddah IZ
DA
It could be. No doubt life expectancy has increased and thus the alarmist and skeptic polluters live and pollute longer.
Bruddah IZ
DA
Is that how you guys got the 97% popular vote for the renewable unreliable energy industry?
Bruddah IZ
DA
Bruddah IZ
DA
Youʻre gonna have grandkids?!!
Wez
DA
Not at all. NASA, NOAA don't receive funding from the Alt energy industry, despite what conspiracy clowns on the right might think.
Wez
DA
It was the idiot vote I'm guessing... That theory is true here at least.