Unfuckingbelievable. Reasonably concerned individuals are "ninnies?"
When they stop us from doing what needs doing, and sets us to endless wrangling with no real solution?
FUCK YEAH!
WTF is up with nuke-nutters love-affair with this insanely expensive, forever deadly garbage?
Because it isn't "forever deadly". Sure, the current crop of 50-60 year old tech produces stuff that's hot (lukewarm actually) for tens of thousands of years.
But you're okay with it being stored outside on a fucking parking lot?
When we can produce stuff that's safer, and while it's more radiologically "active" (hot) than the current crop, ITS LIFETIME IS FAR SHORTER (decades or hundreds of years).
I look at it from a storage engineering perspective.
Can we build something that's going to last 100 millennia?
I dunno.
Can we build something that's going to last 500 years?
Probably. The odds are much better.
THERE IS NO ALTERNATIVE MORE EXPENSIVE AND MORE DIRTY THAN NUCLEAR
Bullshit. We've been pumping crap into the atmosphere for the last 200+ years. But you're going to try to tell us that nuclear is dirtier?
Nuclear's waste is more CONCENTRATED? YES! What's all the environmental pollution done to humanity over the last 200 years?
Oh. Maybe. GLOBAL FUCKING WARMING?
But hey, at least it's more diffuse!
As for more expensive. It's more expensive because the people who are terrified and equate nuclear with "nuclear war" have created a regulatory environment that's made it unfairly expensive.
Were fossil fuels required to comply with even HALF of the regulations slapped on nuclear, the price of energy would be unattainable.
But hey, feel free to give up your portion and go shiver in a cave over a meal of grubs.
Answer that, definitively, before telling me safely storing waste for 250--> 30K years is even remotely possible.
Or, howsabout we generate power using technology that produces waste that burns off faster or produces long-lived isotopes that are medically or scientifically useful (like plutonium batteries that NASA can't produce anymore because we're out of plutonium)?
Oh, but nuclear radiation kills less people than slippery showers? Except that all it takes is one good accident to throw your bullshit stats into chaos.
Like an oil spill?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G... (Not to mention the oil lakes and oil fires)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A...
Or coal mine disasters?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1...
The last not to be confused with:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...
Which will be burning for most of the next THREE HUNDRED YEARS.
But hey, natural gas is clean and safe right?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...
So, please, tell me AGAIN, about how DANGEROUS nuclear power is to everyone.