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nononono said:
Speaking of the San Onofre plant, that plant would be still up and running if not for the incompetence of SCE engineers who would NOT take responsibility for their phucked up design they sent to Mitsubishi Int. Look it up. The shut down of that plant in my eyes was manufactured after they dicked the dog.
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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.
 
Bernie Sanders said:
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.
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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.
 
espola said:
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.
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Youd be better off with an extra set of diapers.
 
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.
 
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espola said:
That was proposed, sorta, some time ago - place sealed containers of the waste in subduction zones on the sea bottom where they would be carried into the Earth by tectonic movement.
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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.
 
Bernie Sanders said:
I did.
I guess I still do, seeing as that San Onofre is still loaded with "waste".
Dont get me wrong, Im no no nukes welfare hippie.
I just want some forward planning in place in regards to waste, and emergency contingencies.
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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 . . .
 
Bernie Sanders said:
Do I need one to have an opinion, or to question the administrative authority?
Im no PHD, but Im sure as hell an American who can ask questions and believe or not believe anything I fucking damn well please.
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Who told you to question that particular science? Possibly those that would benefit most from it's denial?
 
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Wez said:
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oh look!! The popular vote!!!
 
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