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Remember when nuclear energy promised that electricity could be generated at a price too cheap to meter. What happened?
Why does any anti-nuclear activist propaganda equal shutting down plants and storing the legacy nuclear waste in the open and usually at the site where it was generated until a safer solution gets approved. Isn’t that inherently dangerous?
Just look at San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station. It’s a sad story. Plant sits idle, the spent fuel waste surrounding the plant, and no plans to fix it or restart it. Meanwhile, California Electric Utility rate payers now pay some of the highest energy rates in the country. Even with all those solar subsidies, we have to reduce utility consumption during peak hours.
In case you ever wondered why there is a nuclear waste problem, or why the nuclear industry is dead, we let congress legislate it away into oblivion. No other power on earth could do this to us but ourselves. The link tells the tale, to be a Dickens Christmas Carol written years ago. Nothing has changed.
Why does any anti-nuclear activist propaganda equal shutting down plants and storing the legacy nuclear waste in the open and usually at the site where it was generated until a safer solution gets approved. Isn’t that inherently dangerous?
Just look at San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station. It’s a sad story. Plant sits idle, the spent fuel waste surrounding the plant, and no plans to fix it or restart it. Meanwhile, California Electric Utility rate payers now pay some of the highest energy rates in the country. Even with all those solar subsidies, we have to reduce utility consumption during peak hours.
In case you ever wondered why there is a nuclear waste problem, or why the nuclear industry is dead, we let congress legislate it away into oblivion. No other power on earth could do this to us but ourselves. The link tells the tale, to be a Dickens Christmas Carol written years ago. Nothing has changed.
A Nuclear Waste Carol
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640x: Nuclear Power (General)
Nuclear Power School
Posted 5 y ago
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I doubt that anyone in the early days of the nuclear industry paused to realize that their waste was going to be dangerous for the next half-million years.
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LCDR Andy Hill
Today, we are on the verge of a new age where fusion makes the energy cheap, and no waste to speak of.
Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Lewis Strauss, in a 1954 address to science writers, had actually coined the phrase “too cheap to meter” to describe fusion power, not fission.
“Transmutation of the elements,–unlimited power, ability to investigate the working of living cells by tracer atoms, the secret of photosynthesis about to be uncovered,–these and a host of other results all in 15 short years. It is not too much to expect that our children will enjoy in their homes electrical energy too cheap to meter,–will know of great periodic regional famines in the world only as matters of history,–will travel effortlessly over the seas and under them and through the air with a minimum of danger and at great speeds,–and will experience a lifespan far longer than ours, as disease yields and man comes to understand what causes him to age. This is the forecast for an age of peace.”
Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Lewis Strauss, in a 1954 address to science writers, had actually coined the phrase “too cheap to meter” to describe fusion power, not fission.
“Transmutation of the elements,–unlimited power, ability to investigate the working of living cells by tracer atoms, the secret of photosynthesis about to be uncovered,–these and a host of other results all in 15 short years. It is not too much to expect that our children will enjoy in their homes electrical energy too cheap to meter,–will know of great periodic regional famines in the world only as matters of history,–will travel effortlessly over the seas and under them and through the air with a minimum of danger and at great speeds,–and will experience a lifespan far longer than ours, as disease yields and man comes to understand what causes him to age. This is the forecast for an age of peace.”
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I know nothing about Nuclear power how come the submarine use it and civilization isn’t using it for something?
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LCDR Andy Hill
The solution is so simple. Open Yucca Mountain with the nuclear industry not the gov’t placed in charge to run it like a business to handle spent radioactive fuel. Better yet, build breeder reactors and have no waste at all. You’ll end global warming, you can restart a nuclear industry invented in America to build modern and safe reactors, and still running globally on American capital. Develop fusion power sooner.
Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Lewis Strauss, in a 1954 address to science writers, had actually coined the phrase “too cheap to meter” to describe fusion power, not fission.
Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Lewis Strauss, in a 1954 address to science writers, had actually coined the phrase “too cheap to meter” to describe fusion power, not fission.
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CPT Lawrence Cable
LCDR Andy Hill - I don't understand why we haven't pursued MSR technology since it eliminates that biggest danger spot in the reactor, the high pressure water coolant system. If you look at the possibilities of MSR and thorium fast breeder technology, it's safer, very little waste and produces fuel.
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