Does Nuclear Power Carry An Acceptable Risk?

[Ali Tait]

Fusion is clean, if it can be made to work on an industrial scale.

[shane]

Just supposing there was a type of nuclear reactor that was physically incapable of melting down or running away, produced waste that only needed to be stored for seventeen years, plus a very small amount that needed to be stored for three hundred years, that didn’t require the impossible temperatures and problems of fusion, and couldn’t produce weapon material even if you wanted it to?

Well there is, and it’s only because of that last feature that you’ve never heard of it and it’s been ignored since the 50s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoriu..._nuclear_power

[Ali Tait]

Yes read an article on that recently, looks interesting.

[Minstrel SE]

Yes thats interesting Shane and I will read up on that

[walpurgis]

Anybody aware of the ZETA fusion project from the fifties? That showed some promise, but was sidelined as has been most fusion research.

Never mind 'cold fusion', which also had potential and never seems to get talked about now.

[Minstrel SE]

The elephant in this particular room that hasn't been mentioned is population growth.
There are simply more of us than the planet can sustain. In terms of food production and energy needs etc.
I can't properly recall, and I can't be bothered to look it up at the moment!, but I think a sustainable population for our little blue dot is about 2 billion.
We are currently heading for 10.

We either limit ourselves and stop behaving like demented rabbits or "Nature" will do it for us.

Yes absolutely and this underlies it all. They have no coherent policy on transport never mind worldwide population growth. Then again how do you control it? I remember people going absolutely beserk when I suggested no more than two children for example.

The planet can not support this level of population. I dont feel a direct connection with land that is easily supporting me.
I feel it in my bones that the illuminati want a world war or plague to keep it down but I am playing Deus Ex at the moment

[Minstrel SE]

The whole reason nuclear power plants were created was to make the bomb grade uranium the government’s needed for their nuclear arsenals. The first nuclear bomb was made of uranium, and the government built a plant to filter out the 238 they needed. A huge monstrous facility in Tennessee that cost a billion dollars in the 1940’s that employed thousands of people, just to make enough uranium to make one bomb. And it took over 6 months to make enough for the one bomb. The next thing you know, they are selling the public on this wonderful clean power of the future. Pushing the cost of making the bomb grade uranium off on the public! Nuclear power is the most expensive electricity ever made, and the waste material is the worst pollutant ever made. Not to mention the cost of keeping it out of the wrong hands. And as mentioned, accidents are real disasters! Almost impossible to recover from. If the money spent on nuclear research had been spent on hydrogen fuel cells or solar and wind power, perhaps those sciences would be up to par to compete with fossil fuels and nuclear power by now? How much of the research in these fields has been bought up and hidden by the oil companies?

If someone invented a generator that ran on water that could power the average home and car, and was affordable, it would cause wars and famine and possibly the end of the world! For attempting to change the status quo, all the people in the Middle East who’s income revolves around the sale of oil, the large part of the world’s money invested in these fossil fuel markets, stock markets would crash, entire regions would starve, wars would break out world wide. And chances are someone in a black suit would come around and kill the inventor before it got out of hand. Maybe it’s already happened?


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Yes and this is why I get upset because its all linked in with nuclear weapons and energy policies which keep the power base and greedy noses in the trough.

I agree with you that there are clearly vested and twisted interests at work.

[walpurgis]

I remember people going absolutely beserk when I suggested no more than two children for example

It's a point of view. One with which I don't necessarily disagree. Everybody is entitled to think how they wish.

We could really stir things up by talking about population reduction or Eugenics. I have read Eysenck you know. Not that I'm advocating anything.

[r100]

Q: Does Nuclear Power Carry An Acceptable Risk?

A: You'll know when it blows up near you.

[jandl100]

Acceptable risk.

I feel sure that far more people have died as a result of the coal mining industry than nuclear power.
Why is that more acceptable?