Doomed to failure

[TylerBeer]

Nuclear power plants that create radioactive waste needing to be stored for 20,000 years is about the worst idea mankind has EVER came up with.
 Change  my mind

There's a place called Bakersfield - you can just store it there and no-one will mind

[mkd]

I LOATHE the CIA. They have gotten us into more trouble than all the other alphabet soups  [size=200]COMBINED[/size]!

[size=150]Yeah!
THEY LOST!!!!!!!!!
A
Freaking NUke!!!!!!!!!!!!
in
the FREAkinG
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Remember the 80's spy spoof movie with chevy chase/ akroyd? 'Spies Like us"??? Truth is stranger than fiction.

[CNCAppsJames]

#MakeFloggingGreatAgain

[Surface]

Nuclear power plants that create radioactive waste needing to be stored for 20,000 years is about the worst idea mankind has EVER came up with.
 Change  my mind

To answer, one must examine why the waste is being stored. As fuel for a reactor, the materials no longer produce sufficient energy to justify the cost of maintaining the facility needed to make electricity, however the waste is still producing radioactive energy, which is why the materials need to be stored for 20,000 years.

What if the energy emitting from the waste could be safely stored, yet also be used.

Technology is being developed to create a 'battery' which would last virtually forever. A radioactive core is protected by multiple layers of synthetic diamonds, one of the hardest materials to damage or break. The energy is absorbed in the diamond through inelastic scattering, which is used to generate electricity.

So now you have the best of both worlds. The nuclear waste is being safely stored i.e. encapsulated in diamonds, yet the energy can be used as an alternative source of energy.

[Matthew Hajicek]

....And then there's always the CIA

They should have just had Bruce Willis do it.

[Matthew Hajicek]

To answer, one must examine why the waste is being stored. As fuel for a reactor, the materials no longer produce sufficient energy to justify the cost of maintaining the facility needed to make electricity, however the waste is still producing radioactive energy, which is why the materials need to be stored for 20,000 years.

It can be refined and concentrated, but that takes money.

[mkd]

Nuclear power plants that create radioactive waste needing to be stored for 20,000 years is about the worst idea mankind has EVER came up with.
 Change  my mind

To answer, one must examine why the waste is being stored. As fuel for a reactor, the materials no longer produce sufficient energy to justify the cost of maintaining the facility needed to make electricity, however the waste is still producing radioactive energy, which is why the materials need to be stored for 20,000 years.

What if the energy emitting from the waste could be safely stored, yet also be used.

Technology is being developed to create a 'battery' which would last virtually forever. A radioactive core is protected by multiple layers of synthetic diamonds, one of the hardest materials to damage or break. The energy is absorbed in the diamond through inelastic scattering, which is used to generate electricity.

So now you have the best of both worlds. The nuclear waste is being safely stored i.e. encapsulated in diamonds, yet the energy can be used as an alternative source of energy.

I remember something about that. Not aware of the diamond part. But they can burn up; hard aint everything.

[pmartin]

[quote="Matthew Hajicek" post_id=10834 time=1620429958 user_id=57]

To answer, one must examine why the waste is being stored. As fuel for a reactor, the materials no longer produce sufficient energy to justify the cost of maintaining the facility needed to make electricity, however the waste is still producing radioactive energy, which is why the materials need to be stored for 20,000 years.

It can be refined and concentrated, but that takes money.
[/quote]

Now that leads to a question. If urinite can be refined into uranium wouldn't it be even cheaper to re-refine spent fuel into usable fissile material?

[RobertELee]

Slave labor? To make solar panels? You don't say.....

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