Recent content by Timtom77

We are in an interglacial warm period. Looking at the past few interglacial periods compared to this one one would expect the temperature to be dropping slowly not rising quickly. We are changing things. While Thorium breeder reactors do produce much less waste and extend the lifetime (how...

I don't know how to snip so this will have to do. Nuclear is a short term solution but the problem with it is that its very expensive to get up and running. Once we are all switched over to nuclear we would be very unlikely to switch again until we start running out of uranium or people start...

Depending on which climate model you use (legitimate arguments for many of them, no consensus as to the "best" one) its possible that we will lose 50% of life on earth by around 2050. 50 by 50. Even the most conservative of estimates predict a mass extinction (by 2100 I believe not sure...

Nuclear is not a very clean technology as it produces large amounts of nuclear waste (see above). Also not mentioned above is the by products from uranium extraction which are also hazardous to store. Nuclear is efficient in terms of putting the fuel in and getting energy out, but looking at...

The rods are usually stored in concrete bunkers under/above ground or reprocessed and the waste process from the reprocessing are stored in said bunkers (after being in the spent fuel pools for 5 years). They have to be stored for more than a decade, some of the waste products have long half...

The poll really speaks for itself. I have my own opinions on the matter, but I am interested to see what the general (well general for people who post comments on the internet) consensus is amongst others. If you feel like you want to better explain your opinion you could answer: -Do you...