On 27 June 2014 06:21, John Clark <johnkcl...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List < > everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote: > > > >Why is it that the same people who believe that solar energy will get >>> a lot better in the future also believe that the nuclear reactors with >>> 1960's technology that we all use today are as good as nuclear reactors >>> will ever get? >>> >> >> > Simple, because nuclear reactor technology is not advancing at the >> geometric rate that Solar PV development & technological improvement is. >> > > Even though R& D spending on new fission ideas has been less than 1% of > that spent on solar cells (or even more useless stuff like bio-fuel) we > nevertheless now know how to make reactors that are vastly cheaper and > safer and more sustainable than the Eisenhower era reactor designs we use > today, but people experience a irrational fear whenever they hear the word > "nuclear", so designs are all we have and nothing is allowed to be actually > built. > > > It is because the nuclear sector has yet to solve the long term waste >> sequestration problem >> > > Engineers solved the nuclear waste problem decades ago, but lawyers have > not solved it and in our society lawyers are far more important than > engineers so nothing gets done. >
How was this solved? I'm told that radionucleides are dangerous, and that this danger is hard to mitigate because they will keep decaying into other substances, so you have a whole range of different types of nuclei produced, with a wide variety of emissions and half lives and so on. How does one get away from that? The stuff is dangerous, and keeps changing into other stuff which is also dangerous, and it does so for millions of years. How do you safely dispose of it? Not to mention nuclear subs which have sunk, canisters which have broken open in mines and so on, all putting more radioactive material into the environment. The solution is ... ? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
