http://dearscience.org/2008/06/04/nuclear-power-nuclear-waste/ Seattle's Only Scientist Sun, 15 Jan 2012 08:20:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://dearscience.org/2008/06/04/nuclear-power-nuclear-waste/comment-page-1/#comment-180 KABOOM! Thu, 19 Jun 2008 22:07:23 +0000 http://dearscience.org/?p=93#comment-180 [...] The physics behind nuclear power, the inner workings of a reactor, nuclear radiation, nuclear waste, the disasters at Three Mile Island and Chernobyl, and the future of nuclear power. Also in a [...] [...] The physics behind nuclear power, the inner workings of a reactor, nuclear radiation, nuclear waste, the disasters at Three Mile Island and Chernobyl, and the future of nuclear power. Also in a [...]

]]> http://dearscience.org/2008/06/04/nuclear-power-nuclear-waste/comment-page-1/#comment-178 Cark Winsome Thu, 19 Jun 2008 21:30:51 +0000 http://dearscience.org/?p=93#comment-178 It cannot be cost advantageous as long as the waste provides a totally open ended cost. Despite promises to the contrary the only thing the industry has come up with is sequestration. Therefore, that stuff has to be kept away from living things and the water table for tens of thousands of years. No matter how low the probability of escape the law of large numbers will guarantee an accident. We don't know how to make something that lasts that long. Science fiction writers have suggested a priesthood. It cannot be cost advantageous as long as the waste provides a totally open ended cost. Despite promises to the contrary the only thing the industry has come up with is sequestration. Therefore, that stuff has to be kept away from living things and the water table for tens of thousands of years. No matter how low the probability of escape the law of large numbers will guarantee an accident. We don’t know how to make something that lasts that long. Science fiction writers have suggested a priesthood.

]]> http://dearscience.org/2008/06/04/nuclear-power-nuclear-waste/comment-page-1/#comment-143 P.D.Sharma Thu, 05 Jun 2008 16:18:37 +0000 http://dearscience.org/?p=93#comment-143 Nuclear waste is one of the five global issues shadowing nuclear power; others being Eonomics, Reactor Accident (TMI-2 and Chernobyl are still fresh in mind), Nuclear Safety and Proliferation. Science and Technology is able to find good solutions for them. With rising and neck breaking oil prices and threats of global warming looming large on future generations nuclear power appears inevitable. It is the cleanest source of power next to green powers which still donot have the potential to supply bulk power at viable tarrif. Therefore for energy security and sustainability no power is able to compete with nuclear power. Nuclear waste is one of the five global issues shadowing nuclear power; others being Eonomics, Reactor Accident (TMI-2 and Chernobyl are still fresh in mind), Nuclear Safety and Proliferation. Science and Technology is able to find good solutions for them. With rising and neck breaking oil prices and threats of global warming looming large on future generations nuclear power appears inevitable. It is the cleanest source of power next to green powers which still donot have the potential to supply bulk power at viable tarrif. Therefore for energy security and sustainability no power is able to compete with nuclear power.

]]> http://dearscience.org/2008/06/04/nuclear-power-nuclear-waste/comment-page-1/#comment-138 Dear Science » Blog Archive » Nuclear Power Wed, 04 Jun 2008 22:56:23 +0000 http://dearscience.org/?p=93#comment-138 [...] of nuclear power plants, the parts needed to build a reactor, the biological effects of radiation, nuclear waste, the two biggest fiascoes in commercial nuclear power and finally talk about what a new nuclear [...] [...] of nuclear power plants, the parts needed to build a reactor, the biological effects of radiation, nuclear waste, the two biggest fiascoes in commercial nuclear power and finally talk about what a new nuclear [...]

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