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nuclear is probably one of the safest and one of the most deadly plants to have. All it takes is one disaster to happen and things go REAL bad. And unlike other plants you cant just clean it up and fix it, its pretty much containment, then a slow controlled cleanup in order not to kill anyone, assuming you can actually get close enough to get it under control without the radiation killing you. I think the Fukushima plant was made to withstand huge tsunamis already, but the one that hit it was even bigger than it was designed to withstand. One of those 1 in a thousand situations that no one can really see coming. I mean they could have designed for such a scenario from the start but based on how old the plant is and when it was designed they likely thought the current criteria was already on the high side of things. |
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The nuclear-related problem is that nobody can live there anymore, and all those people had to leave literally all of their property behind. One minute you are at work or school, the next you are a homeless refugee with nothing. Better than killed by a tsunami, but still pretty shitty and makes for a bad public image of the cause.
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Unfortunately the failure at Fukushima was more of a reflection of not meeting the safety standards of a barrier that was in place at other plants. Obviously a nuclear disaster is worse than a coal shaft that collapses or a wind turbine that catches on fire. This is why the smaller type of reactors that can’t melt down are nice.
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Gen 4 MSRs and pebble bed reactors are inherently safer yet, where the fuel is incapable of exceeding some reasonably low temperature by design, and there's no radioactive water coolant. Last edited by serialk11r; 10-03-2020 at 03:45 AM. |
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Production of the pebbles still generates a significant amount of highly ionizing waste materials.
There is currently NO facility in the US capable of accepting these. NIMBY Yucca Mountain The business plan for the last 300 years of toxic material manufacturing is to spin off a holding company to lease the property from. Once the plant wears out or becomes inefficient and dangerous, the holding company goes bankrupt and leaves it behind. Looking out for the shareholders. Good for business.
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10-03-2020, 05:58 PM | #189 |
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Welcome to our legal system. By bankrupting the 'company', it leaves the shareholders off the hook from having to pay for site cleanup expenses to do anything else with the land.
We get nuclear power, they get money, and future generations get the fallout. Literally.
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This is interesting, maybe there is hope yet...
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Hydrogen has been touted as a 'miracle' fuel for a while. One of the (several) problems with it is that it takes more energy to make than you get out of it (pesky laws of thermodynamics). Reacting it with carbon to make liquid methanol solves one of hydrogen's problems (though also takes more energy), that of transport (since most of the world has infrastructure in place to transport and store stable liquid fuel, but not either gaseous hydrogen, or hydrogen compressed and cooled to -253 deg C in liquid form). The principle is sound, and would theoretically be carbon-neutral - IF the power source for the process was renewable, and IF the final product could be made cost-competitively with fossil fuels. That second point has been a problem for so many alternative liquid fuels, such as hydrocarbon or alcohol based fuels from algae. They're great ideas and work in principle. But if the final product is more expensive than fossil fuels, it doesn't work in the real world. At least not in a culture like the U.S. where making money is always the highest priority, and often the only priority. |
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I guess that’s neutral in the sense of stoichometry. I couldn’t afford a new Mirai and I’m not holding my breath my financial futures afford me a fuel cell Porsche.
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Banning ice is just talk for now. They can't even get rid of tiktok
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