With Nuclear Rebirth Come New Worries

Yes, keeping the quality and the safety in mind is one thing to do. What however isn't mentioned here, but is as important is advanced waste management. Not to find ourselves where all the environmentalists claim we already are (sitting on a pile of nuclear waste which will remain highly active for billions of years), we need to build more breeder reactors, which actually use nuclear waste to make power, we need to use various transmutation facilities, where the waste that we can not use anymore is transmutated into an isotope or another element with shorter half-life - only then will the nuclear power be what we want it to be...

Just build the reactors next to the local parliment buildings or presidential palace and the safety should improve considerably :)

Regards
James

lol james

What happens if you run an electrical current through radioactive waste?

I suppose it would just conduct through. After all, most of the waste is U-238, which is a metal..

Actually running a random electrical current through a radioactive substance can disrupt the space-time continuum. Please do not try this at home.

I recently heard about a series of experiments by a researcher at Lawrence Livermore Laboratory who was attempting to use this effect to communicate with his grandfather. But strangly I am unable to confirm that. I can no longer find any reports of his results and even Google seems to have lost track of his existence. I think something must be wrong with my keyboard.

A nuclear Third World is still the Third World.

Thank you Jimmy Carter for breaking the nuclear fuel cycle by prohibiting reprocessing in the US. His misapplied "morality" has led to unsafe spent fuel pools all over the US. The economic impact of non-nuclear electric power, the deaths associated with unreprocessed spent fuel and the air polluted by coal fire plants all rest on his head.

"the deaths associated with unreprocessed spent fuel"? What deaths? Please state your source. To my knowledge, to this point, no human died due to the effects of spent fuel.

AND... no one even thinks about using by far the safest, most efficient, low technology nuclear heat generating system ever devised that DOES NOT REQUIRE URANIUM ENRICHMENT for operation....CANDU. This D2O moderated system, devised by AECL and in operation at many sites for ~40 yrs in Canada et al, can also be run on the radioactive waste from PWR's and on Thorium in a breeder cycle. Since enrichment is NOT required, the OVERALL cost of the power generated is by far the cheapest, BUT GE, Westinghouse, etc. don't use this system so the politicians and media never hear anything about it.