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Wez said:
The more Nuclear Power the better I say...
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I agree in principle, but in practice the US Congress has shown its political weakness by not completing its obligation to open a high-level waste disposal site. Until we do so, we should stop creating more of it.
 
espola said:
I agree in principle, but in practice the US Congress has shown its political weakness by not completing its obligation to open a high-level waste disposal site. Until we do so, we should stop creating more of it.
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Can't we just drop it into Volcanoes? 8)
 
espola said:
I agree in principle, but in practice the US Congress has shown its political weakness by not completing its obligation to open a high-level waste disposal site. Until we do so, we should stop creating more of it.
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Funny, that is how I categorize your posts, high level waste.
 
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Wez said:
Can't we just drop it into Volcanoes? 8)
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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. The plan was scuttled by big-money investors who were aware of our improving technical ability to capitalize on resources on the sea bottom, so don't go mucking it up needlessly.

The DOE has spent a large amount of money (allegedly about $38 billion but no one is really sure) to locate, prepare, construct and test the intended site at Yucca Mountain, inside the boundary of the Nevada Test Site, one of the most-nuked areas in the world. For purely political reasons (YM is in Harry Reid's state, and the local NIMBYs don't like it) the site is now shut down, with only security guards on site to keep the public away. Most nuclear waste in the country is spent fuel assemblies from nuclear power reactors, which are stored in over 100 sites associated with the industry. The map looks like someone fired buckshot at it -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yucca...y#/media/File:Nuclear_waste_locations_USA.jpg
Even San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, which will never deliver another bit of atomic electricity to the grid, is required to store its waste on site "indefinitely", which in NRC terms means longer than 220 years.
 
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. The plan was scuttled by big-money investors who were aware of our improving technical ability to capitalize on resources on the sea bottom, so don't go mucking it up needlessly.

The DOE has spent a large amount of money (allegedly about $38 billion but no one is really sure) to locate, prepare, construct and test the intended site at Yucca Mountain, inside the boundary of the Nevada Test Site, one of the most-nuked areas in the world. For purely political reasons (YM is in Harry Reid's state, and the local NIMBYs don't like it) the site is now shut down, with only security guards on site to keep the public away. Most nuclear waste in the country is spent fuel assemblies from nuclear power reactors, which are stored in over 100 sites associated with the industry. The map looks like someone fired buckshot at it -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yucca...y#/media/File:Nuclear_waste_locations_USA.jpg
Even San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, which will never deliver another bit of atomic electricity to the grid, is required to store its waste on site "indefinitely", which in NRC terms means longer than 220 years.
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We could bake the waste into bullets and fire them into illegal immigrants, pregnant women seeking abortions, gays and Muslims, I'm surprised that hasn't been proposed. Sorry, that would only solve one problem, not two...
 
Wez said:
We could bake the waste into bullets and fire them into illegal immigrants, pregnant women seeking abortions, gays and Muslims, I'm surprised that hasn't been proposed. Sorry, that would only solve one problem, not two...
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Then the waste would be floating around the country in unknown locations. I must admit that at one time I proposed to SDG&E that they "solve" their nuclear waste problem by sending it out in proportional packets to all their stockholders.

As an aside, one of the few places where you can be assured there is no nuclear waste is large municipal landfills, since they are routinely scanned to detect illegal dumping.
 
Wez said:
We could bake the waste into bullets and fire them into illegal immigrants, pregnant women seeking abortions, gays and Muslims, I'm surprised that hasn't been proposed. Sorry, that would only solve one problem, not two...
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Muahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.... you are an original Wezzer....
 
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