Cosmic Cleric

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I get the meme, but I don’t know how to apply it to this post.

Could someone elaborate?

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Fair enough, thanks for sharing.

So like I said, the catastrophic failure effects are my primary concern, though I am concerned about dealing with the waste product.

Having said that, that’s still a lot of waste that your documentation is talking about, and it’ll be around for centuries. I don’t think it makes your point as well as you think it does.

Better to have other forms of energy that doesn’t generate that sort of waste, or make sure we have one hell of a foolproof (not verified by biased corporations) of preventing that waste from getting into the environment either accidentally or on purpose/terrorism.

Those problems literally HAVE been solved.

And are those designs in production today, or still on the drawing board?

What percentage of reactors today have this new design that you speak of?

the entire United States hasn’t even made enough fuel to fill a football field since we started using nuclear power.

Citation required, because I remember them having to dig out a huge underground storage mine somewhere in the Southwest (nearby Vegas if my recollection is accurate) to handle all the waste that would be generated between all the power station reactors and all the hospitals that use radioactive devices and everything else.

All other energy techs are allowed to have problems and produce waste except for one.

The other ones don’t fail catastrophically like nuclear does.

The other ones don’t produce waste that is the worst kind of toxicity for Humanity that lasts for hundred of years.

Solve those problems, and I’ll get on board that train.

Because nuclear is scary.

Nuclear isn’t scary. It’s waste, on the other hand, is.

But you know, it’s not like we’ve not had multiple examples of nuclear power plants failing catastrophically and destroying things around them for miles, and for decades/centuries.

Having said that, if they did come out with new technology version of a nuclear power plant that is safe and that with a catastrophic failure does not harm the environment around itself then I would be all for it. I just don’t think the technology is there for that. I hear they’re working on it though.