so wait, these reactors only require a small amount of fuel to start, then even smaller doses of material to keep going? with no waste? cause i am not seeing anything talking about how much waste is actually produced
at that point isn't the only problem with keeping people from attempting to blow the whole plant up?
am i missing something or is this actually that awesome?
New processing techniques which remove the actinides make the waste dangerous for only 300 years instead of millenia. Reprocessing can recover 95% of the uranium and actinides from spent fuel rods. Depleted uranium has various fun uses, such as killing people in the form of awesome bullets, and according to Bill Gates it is apparently now usable as fuel.
Most importantly, the public health and environmental concerns associated with radioactive waste are significantly less serious than those associated with current accepted technologies such as coal power. Radioactive waste comprises less than 1% of current total industrial toxic wastes and one report says the population effective radiation dose from coal power byproducts is 100 times that of nuclear byproducts.
i would say depleted uranium being usable as bullets isn't necessarily a point i would want to yell from the rooftops in the name of nuclear power
and isnt there mounting evidence that the depleted slugs are still radioactive?
i remember reading something about increased cancer rates recently
EDIT: again, your response shouldnt be to laugh maliciously at people who you deem ignorant, if you are such a big proponent you should be striving to change their minds
Yeah I'm pretty sure there is concern about that. I was being a wee bit sarcastic about them being awesome. But depleted uranium is useful.
EDIT: again, your response shouldnt be to laugh maliciously at people who you deem ignorant, if you are such a big proponent you should be striving to change their minds
Well you can strive to change minds and I will go around making people feel bad to make myself feel better. Then we can all be happy. Tomatoes tomahtoes.
the exact effects of depleted uranium waste on civilian populations is a point of contention but it is a toxic metal so even disregarding the chance that it is causing cancer or w/e it still is a heavy metal and all the bad shit that happens with heavy metal poisoning still applies
t YoSoy; i am a pacifist so bullets is all boohoo for me
Yeah I'm pretty sure there is concern about that. I was being a wee bit sarcastic about them being awesome. But depleted uranium is useful.
EDIT: again, your response shouldnt be to laugh maliciously at people who you deem ignorant, if you are such a big proponent you should be striving to change their minds
Well you can strive to change minds and I will go around making people feel bad to make myself feel better. Then we can all be happy. Tomatoes tomahtoes.
except you dont make people feel bad, just angry, at you
but i guess do whatever makes you happy, just dont expect anyone to care when you get hit by a bus or something
She was apprehended outside a science building at the University of Alabama's Huntsville campus, shortly after firing on people at a biology faculty meeting."
the idea of nuclear energy still makes Americans skittish
Is this true? I know people say this all the time, but I've never actually met anyone who finds nuclear power to be dangerous. I've never even found anyone like that on the internet, and I've met anti-vaxxers, GW denialists, creationists, furries and whatever the fuck those guys over on 4chan are on the internet.
Has anyone ever actually talked to someone who is scared of nuclear power? Did you laugh in their face? Or cry because it's so sad that society allows them to exist?
so how would you dispose of nuclear waste in a safe manner?
i'm not saying i am for or against, but if we rely on nuclear power then the amount of waste will increase while available storage decreases
but no, don't question anything, just laugh in peoples faces and pity them
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The amount of radioactive waste that spews out of a smokestack in a coal-fired plant's lifetime makes a nuclear plant's waste look pristine. Would you rather have it in the air or in the ground? You can at least put the stuff in the ground in another reactor to finish it off.
Water's properties have mostly to do with how the molecules arrange themselves. H2O has good organization.
Nuclear power needs to be integrated into the framework of our generative infrastructure just as much as solar, wind and hydro. Generally Homer Simpsons are not allowed to work in real nuclear power plants. Two cents.
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gods damnit druhims stupid barefoot running throwback-to-savannah-crap made the cnn front page
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The article about why Buzz will be a hit made me LOL. What in the hell? Pete Cashmore, you look like Brad Pitt but you're blowing your WIS and observation checks.
I'm seeing what it would take to divorce myself from google completely. I'm trimming the hell out of my web presence to see if I can start controlling it through one portal.
I've turned off Buzz and altered all of my iGoogle settings to pretty much total privacy except for Reader. So if anyone at work sees anything through their Buzz, it'll be mostly posts from BoingBoing that I've shared for my parents.
I'm not necessarily concerned about privacy, it's more of just an experiment brought on because of security concerns and because I really have no need for Buzz.
So I've cleared pretty much everything from my google profile, deleted anything I posted on buzz and then unfollowed and blocked the 40 people that google felt I should be following, and then turned off buzz on gmail.
I also had to go and unfollow them on reader, I think.
Then I deleted the couple of videos I had on youtube, unlinked that account from google and then deleted the account.
I didn't know that if you delete your account without getting rid of the videos, your channel and videos remain on there forever.
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you havent met shit you silly goose, im on the fence because i dont think the risks even come close to being outweighed by the benefits
but no, just keep making snide remarks, why dont you go ahead and insult my intelligence while you are at it
seems that you are better at that than discussing the issue at hand
what the fuck ever happened to critically thinking?
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No, we stopped building plants
We never stopped researching new and more advanced ways to use nuclear energy
that is nifty and something for sure to look into
i guess the guy just assumed i was 100% against it, or doesnt actually want to discuss it, just wants to make fun of people
after a brief skimming i notice they only mention a breeding ratio of slightly higher than 1.00, which is crap
and the notable reactors are all decommissioned or in the process of becoming decommissioned
(I was being sarcastic, I'm sorry)
at that point isn't the only problem with keeping people from attempting to blow the whole plant up?
am i missing something or is this actually that awesome?
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Most importantly, the public health and environmental concerns associated with radioactive waste are significantly less serious than those associated with current accepted technologies such as coal power. Radioactive waste comprises less than 1% of current total industrial toxic wastes and one report says the population effective radiation dose from coal power byproducts is 100 times that of nuclear byproducts.
I stole all this from wikipedia.
Maybe you are just taking shit too seriously? I don't know if you noticed, but this is the internet.
Also breeder reactors are apparently not commercially available yet.
isnt actually discussing things fun?
EDIT: so your defense for being a silly goose is "lol internet"?
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Edit: I mean people who are adamantly against it. Of course it is always a good idea to think critically.
And Shifty bullets are awesome I don't know what you are on about.
and isnt there mounting evidence that the depleted slugs are still radioactive?
i remember reading something about increased cancer rates recently
EDIT: again, your response shouldnt be to laugh maliciously at people who you deem ignorant, if you are such a big proponent you should be striving to change their minds
Maybe they just shot all the people that weren't going to get cancer.
them browns gots to die one way or another
Well you can strive to change minds and I will go around making people feel bad to make myself feel better. Then we can all be happy. Tomatoes tomahtoes.
edit: anyway I wasn't tryin' to be a dick.
t YoSoy; i am a pacifist so bullets is all boohoo for me
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except you dont make people feel bad, just angry, at you
but i guess do whatever makes you happy, just dont expect anyone to care when you get hit by a bus or something
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http://www.theness.com/roguesgallery/?p=1366
Working in the energy sector I really quite enjoy reading about new ideas and advances in the field. Some cool ideas surface regularly.
I promise I'll only sort of hold onto a monopoly
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She was apprehended outside a science building at the University of Alabama's Huntsville campus, shortly after firing on people at a biology faculty meeting."
My money is on crazy stupid fundie.
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WELL, HOW ABOUT I GIVE YOU THE OPPORTUNITY TO STUDY DEATH?
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I was expecting this to be significantly more sexy.
it was intentionally ambiguous, it is both.
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The amount of radioactive waste that spews out of a smokestack in a coal-fired plant's lifetime makes a nuclear plant's waste look pristine. Would you rather have it in the air or in the ground? You can at least put the stuff in the ground in another reactor to finish it off.
let the aliens sort it out
Scientists freeze water with heat
Special films change electrical charge depending on their temperature
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Nuclear power needs to be integrated into the framework of our generative infrastructure just as much as solar, wind and hydro. Generally Homer Simpsons are not allowed to work in real nuclear power plants. Two cents.
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Srsly Google WTF.
So I've cleared pretty much everything from my google profile, deleted anything I posted on buzz and then unfollowed and blocked the 40 people that google felt I should be following, and then turned off buzz on gmail.
I also had to go and unfollow them on reader, I think.
Then I deleted the couple of videos I had on youtube, unlinked that account from google and then deleted the account.
I didn't know that if you delete your account without getting rid of the videos, your channel and videos remain on there forever.
Huh. Google Meatspace.