I would have an opinion but Im not realy interested and just cant be bothered.......oh look Jordans got a new boyfriend.Originally posted by danjama:
My fellow British citizens seem rather subdued and apathetic at the moment, with regards to any major issue.
It's saddening, and seems to be getting worse.
It was a semi-serious reference for the far future when we could clean up waste storage sites on earth - by shooting it into the sun. I didn't think it's going to happen in 10 years lol. In 200, possibly yes. Just wanted to show that if we bury waste underground it doesn't mean it will stay there forever.Originally posted by M_Gunz:
The 'shoot it into the sun' idea is the most preposterous of all.
The point still stands, dig up a large room underground, away from major ground water sites. Secure the room heavily so that the waste is contained even in disaster scenarios. Big room, or many rooms with small amounts of waste in each one, means the waste doesn't have to all be lumped in a small space, thus your fears of it achieving criticality are resolved by a solution so simple and obvious that I feel weird to even have to write it down.
lolOriginally posted by Badsight-:
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Aimail101:
Make sure there's no risk of ground water contamination.....
yeah , should be simple
lol </div></BLOCKQUOTE>
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departm...Sheffield%20U%29.pdf
ROFL Coal Ash is radioactive http://www.scientificamerican....e-than-nuclear-waste
"Over the past few decades, however, a series of studies has called these stereotypes into question. Among the surprising conclusions: the waste produced by coal plants is actually more radioactive than that generated by their nuclear counterparts. In fact, the fly ash emitted by a power plant—a by-product from burning coal for electricity—carries into the surrounding environment 100 times more radiation than a nuclear power plant producing the same amount of energy."
Wiki "It should also be noted that during normal operation, the effective dose equivalent from coal plants is 100 times that from nuclear plants."
Although the Chernobyl incident released 35 times the radiation in 10 days a coal powerplant does in it's entire lifetime.
To be sure, much coal also has isotopes that are released in the burn. It is a matter of how much of the coal is burned and the answer is a whole lot.Originally posted by Erkki_M:
but sure as heck better than burning coal or oil.
With 'dirty' coal there is a lot of sulfur that combines to make acid rain. Again it depends on how much. For example there is the plume coming off Eastern US for many decades now. It deposits across the US before sweeping off the coast, goes clear across the Atlantic Ocean causing pH change and reaches clear into Germany though how much France contributes is guesswork. The plume is seen from satellites through spectral light data, there is no doubt about it.
There is Polonium in tobacco. IIRC it comes from the fertilizer. One pack a day habit gives the equivalent of 100 chest x-rays per year at 1980 x-ray standards. Sit in a smoking room and you don't have to smoke to get the 'benefits'.
Just live in a big city with lot of granite in the buildings. One block is not so much but they all add up. Time spent exposed counts as well. But LOL, there is no city cancer increase, is there?
Life was possible before the modern 'big burn' habits and lifestyle kicked in. The world was more able to handle the mess. That ended not long before I was born but I know it was once possible to live clean. For created and supported reasons with weapons behind them there will be no going back until a very bad worldwide collapse. Fission reactors multiplying should provide that the 'big burn' level can be raised and even fewer places will be safe after the crash.
Will there be a crash? The 'big burn' has allowed for a few billions more people to be alive than otherwise, and we all have governments capable of fielding military strength. When things get tight and the fighting goes critical, there will be a crash.
It is and is not -what- we burn that matters the most. It's -how much- and what we do with it. Current economic systems are mostly based on expansion, at least in 'developed' countries with the 'developing' countries depending on the others for much. We are supposed to grow out of the problems made by too much growth already. Trash that should survive the next big ice age still being hot doesn't strike me as a brilliant solution. Even the stuff with short half life being made breaks down to more long-lived 'waste', it doesn't just go away in any 100's of years.
Windmills are a bad option because they are unreliable.But I'll wager that suddenly windmills don't seem that bad an option to the moaning NIMBY's that the UK seems so good at producing.
Take today as an example. In the early hours of this morning, when electricity demand was low, Britain's windmills were producing 967 mw of power. By late morning, when demand had picked up, they were down to 489 mw.
Peak electricity demand in Britain occurs on cold winter evenings. The colder the temperature, the higher the electricity use. Unfortunately cold temperatures happen when wind speed is low. Last December, when electricity usage hit a peak for the year, windmills were producing almost no power.
Wind power is a scam that feeds government subsidies to investors in return for making politicians appear "green". It doesn't replace fossil fuels, because conventional plants have to be kept on standby. It merely generates additional power at very high cost.
Japan utility: Nuke fuel rods fully exposed again
AP
TOKYO – A Japanese utility says fuel rods at a troubled nuclear reactor were once again fully exposed hours after authorities were able to stabilize a similar emergency.
Tokyo Electric Power Co. says the exposure happened at Unit 2 of the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant because a steam vent wouldn't open Monday, causing a sudden drop of water.
That reactor and two others at the plant are dangerously overheating and authorities are racing to prevent meltdown.
Well what ever Tepco says, has proven several times to be not exactly the truth, they seem to be a highly debateable company, that sort of weedle their way through, and not always taking it too exact with the truth. I think over the next few days we are going to see all four blocks of Fukusima I explode, and who knows what will happen with the other plants.