Cleaner Nuclear
Friends,
There are enough strong feelings on this subject to last us all a lifetime. But setting that aside, can't we all agree that something must be done about all the radioactive waste we are already living in the middle of now? Every year more piles up. And I think we want more of some of it, like waste plutonium from decommissioning US and Russian missles. But what can we do about it?
We can recycle the stuff and burn it down to about 5% of its present volume using the French method--which was originally an American reactor design. Or we can use even newer methods and achieve even better results.
I know, I know....safety, proliferation, blahblahblah... Whatever we do, the rest of the world will keep right on going. So if it is risky, I would rather that we kept control ourselves and solved these problems.
Let's master this technology again. Let us modularize and standardize and value engineer a new generation of nuclear reactors and build a workforce of highly paid scientists and engineers and technicians to build and run them. God knows we need the energy.
There are enough strong feelings on this subject to last us all a lifetime. But setting that aside, can't we all agree that something must be done about all the radioactive waste we are already living in the middle of now? Every year more piles up. And I think we want more of some of it, like waste plutonium from decommissioning US and Russian missles. But what can we do about it?
We can recycle the stuff and burn it down to about 5% of its present volume using the French method--which was originally an American reactor design. Or we can use even newer methods and achieve even better results.
I know, I know....safety, proliferation, blahblahblah... Whatever we do, the rest of the world will keep right on going. So if it is risky, I would rather that we kept control ourselves and solved these problems.
Let's master this technology again. Let us modularize and standardize and value engineer a new generation of nuclear reactors and build a workforce of highly paid scientists and engineers and technicians to build and run them. God knows we need the energy.
Tags: Nuclear, nuclear, reactor, waste
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Permalink Reply by neil cox on -
I don't know what to do about declining ethics either, except, I think T. Boone Pickens is one of the few ethical authority figures who is trying to make society work. My 1976 US Chemical Rubber handbook lists about 1000 isotopes of the elements. It shows 11 isotopes of iron and gives a half life for 5 of them.The tenth one has a half life of 300,000 years Also construction steel has several percent other elements, most of which will have radio active isotopes, after exposure to nuclear radiation. Concrete typically has about a dozen elements over 1% so it also becomes at least slightly radioactive. Neil
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Permalink Reply by William A. Stuart on -
I stand corrected.
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