We should use nuclear untill we perfect renewable energy sources. Onece we can get the amount of powwr we need from renewable, nuclear should be phased out.
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i think we should use hydrogen fuel cells
it's prefectly safe
the only waste is pure water
and there are no moving parts so they need almost no maintenance
plus u can turn the water back into hydrogen and oxygen with just pond scum and sunlight
and of course still use solar and wind energy
it's prefectly safe
the only waste is pure water
and there are no moving parts so they need almost no maintenance
plus u can turn the water back into hydrogen and oxygen with just pond scum and sunlight
and of course still use solar and wind energy
Nuclear material makes me think that God may exist.
God put down the nuclear material unto the ground and said "One day this shall be useful for my children". One day, someone dug it up. The God looked down and said "There, Child, I have given thee the power to destroy worlds and the power to create a future." And man took this as a gift and hasn't said thanks so far.
Nuclear power is the way to go in our modern age. With the introduction of miniaturization, we can make smaller and smaller reactors. In addition, we can use breeder reactors. We must combine the two and make small, thorium-based reactors that will not only drastically improve safety and output, but also reduce the output of nuclear waste to near-nil.
But what we need to do in the future is to make compact fusion breeder reactors that will not only exhibit immense amounts of energy, but also create a much safer environment by reducing the half-life of radioactive material to almost the minimum. And possibly create hydrogen energy that will ensure an even safer world.
Truly, Nuclear Power is God's gift to man. Cheap, reliable, safe and environmentally friendly. All praise be to the atoms, for they have shown us the way.
God put down the nuclear material unto the ground and said "One day this shall be useful for my children". One day, someone dug it up. The God looked down and said "There, Child, I have given thee the power to destroy worlds and the power to create a future." And man took this as a gift and hasn't said thanks so far.
Nuclear power is the way to go in our modern age. With the introduction of miniaturization, we can make smaller and smaller reactors. In addition, we can use breeder reactors. We must combine the two and make small, thorium-based reactors that will not only drastically improve safety and output, but also reduce the output of nuclear waste to near-nil.
But what we need to do in the future is to make compact fusion breeder reactors that will not only exhibit immense amounts of energy, but also create a much safer environment by reducing the half-life of radioactive material to almost the minimum. And possibly create hydrogen energy that will ensure an even safer world.
Truly, Nuclear Power is God's gift to man. Cheap, reliable, safe and environmentally friendly. All praise be to the atoms, for they have shown us the way.
Your not one of those Children of the Atom people from Megaton are you? I heard those guys are kinda strange.Combined said:
All jokes aside I say keep using it till we find something better, the odds of a meltdown are very rare and we're running out of oil and what not.
Last time I checked, ITER still didn't exist... and it still doesn't. Site prep is done, construction of the research buildings has started, and it's promising as a research program, but it's not a practical power plant and it will never be one itself because it's not intended to be one.Captain_Caveman said:
Hopefully, though, ITER's construction will teach us the lessons necessary to build a practical tokamak reactor... but that step is more than that "15 years away" figure, I think.
-- Steve
France has been running nuclear power for over 40 years now. Almost all their power in fact comes from nuclear power plants. They have never had an accident nor do they dispose of their nuclear waste in a no-environmentally friendly way. This disproves all the anti-nuclear power bullshit that environmentalist hippes ***** about. Their arguments are all retarded. America should have been perfecting nuclear power for the last 40 years like France has been doing. Maybe they can give us some tips!
Here is a good quote from an article on NPR's website.
Here is a good quote from an article on NPR's website.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5369610
the problem with that is the people, 1 worker with lose morals and/or severe money problems, or 1 clever agent from another government and you'll have those problems anywaysGlefistus said:
no system is perfect, every system has faults that can be exploited
what experiments? the LHC broke down in 9 daysyaik7a said:
Solar's problem is its inability to process a large spectrum of light. it only reacts in the infrared spectrum, so it is unable to process the 2 mm of light's total spectrum we can see, loosing a masive amount of power. if we could perfect the other chemicals that cover the spectrum of visible light, solar would be far more effective at powering the world. if we could say, make a chemical that can effectively harness power from gama-rays, the concrete foundation of your house would be able to power your houseCrysisMcGee said:
Glad to see most escapist's here are in favour if nuclear power. I would just add that as time has gone on, nuclear power plants have become increasingly efficient and generated progressively less and less nuclear waste. That, along with tried and tested methods of disposing of nuclear waste means that nuclear waste disposal is not really a major problem with nuclear power plants.
Of course ITER exists. ITER is the project. The project exists and has since forming in 2006. No project even near it's scale has existed in the past, especially not in the 60s.Anton P. Nym said:
also they're on schedule to have a working prototype by 2018. that is 9 years from now. I think 6 years is a sufficient buffer. And once they have the kinks worked out you can bet it will be cloned all over the world.
Everything i said originally still stands true.
Why is everyone so scared. I blame the scaremongering media. Reactors are thousands of times safer than earlier ones (as has been stated), the waste isn't that potent (sure it has a long half life but it isn't intense at all and are mainly Alpha and Beta emitters which can be stopped by a thin sheet of lead) and is relatively cheap which is what we need at the moment to put more funding into Fusion.
I got another pro for you. Depleted Uranium! That stuff is a very tough material with a low drag coefficient and high density. Great for making vehicles, armo(u)r, radiation shielding (i know, ironic right?), aircraft counterweights etc.
Also, my personal favorite Hot Dry Rock [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhanced_geothermal_systems] is the best (renewable, no base/backup required, scalable, no greenhouse gases etc.)
The viability for space travel and the portability of a nuclear power station makes it useful.
IMO the best system would be: Solar and Wind based by HDR (instead of the current coal with a minor hydro and nuclear). For vehicles that require range: solar based by a nuclear engine.
Also, my personal favorite Hot Dry Rock [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhanced_geothermal_systems] is the best (renewable, no base/backup required, scalable, no greenhouse gases etc.)
The viability for space travel and the portability of a nuclear power station makes it useful.
IMO the best system would be: Solar and Wind based by HDR (instead of the current coal with a minor hydro and nuclear). For vehicles that require range: solar based by a nuclear engine.
That is complete and utter BS. If it were true then how does France get 80% of it's power from nuclear? Huh? Answer me that. If it were true then France's power department of their government would be well into bankruptcy as they have been using nuclear power for over 40 years now.JWAN said:
You people have all been brain washed against nuclear power by the scare tactics of the environmentalist hippies. The fact of the matter is that nuclear power is the best way to stop using coal and to help the global climate change situation.
I will quote myself to prove a point.
axia777 said: