Nuke energy is STILL toxic, carcinogenic, radioactive and no one wants radioactive waste in their backyards

[merrill]

Nuke energy is STILL toxic, carcinogenic and no one wants radioactive waste in their backyard.
Renewable energy sources are natural resources that replenish themselves, primarily including solar, wind, hydropower, geothermal, and biomasssolar, wind, hydropower, geothermal, and biomass, with emerging options like ocean (tidal/wave) energy; these sources provide clean, sustainable power for electricity, heating, and transportation, reducing reliance on fossil fuels and mitigating climate change.
Major Types of Renewable Energy
= Solar Energy: Captures sunlight using photovoltaic (PV) panels or concentrated solar power (CSP) for electricity or heating.
= Wind Energy: Uses turbines to convert wind's kinetic energy into electricity, with wind driven by solar heating.
= Hydropower: Generates electricity from flowing water, like rivers (dams) or tides.
= Geothermal Energy: Taps into the Earth's internal heat for power and heating/cooling.
= Biomass: Uses organic matter (plants, wood, waste) to produce heat or biofuels.
= Energy: Harnesses energy from tides, waves, and currents.
Key Benefits
= Environmental: Reduces greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution.
= Sustainability: Sources are naturally replenished.
= Energy Security: Decreases dependence on imported fossil fuels.
Applications
= Electricity generation (most common)
= Heating and cooling
= (biofuels, electric vehicles)
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Nuke energy is STILL toxic, carcinogenic and no one wants radioactive waste in their backyard.
Renewable energy sources are natural resources that replenish themselves, primarily including solar, wind, hydropower, geothermal, and biomasssolar, wind, hydropower, geothermal, and biomass, with emerging options like ocean (tidal/wave) energy; these sources provide clean, sustainable power for electricity, heating, and transportation, reducing reliance on fossil fuels and mitigating climate change.
Major Types of Renewable Energy
= Solar Energy: Captures sunlight using photovoltaic (PV) panels or concentrated solar power (CSP) for electricity or heating.
= Wind Energy: Uses turbines to convert wind's kinetic energy into electricity, with wind driven by solar heating.
= Hydropower: Generates electricity from flowing water, like rivers (dams) or tides.
= Geothermal Energy: Taps into the Earth's internal heat for power and heating/cooling.
= Biomass: Uses organic matter (plants, wood, waste) to produce heat or biofuels.
= Energy: Harnesses energy from tides, waves, and currents.
Key Benefits
= Environmental: Reduces greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution.
= Sustainability: Sources are naturally replenished.
= Energy Security: Decreases dependence on imported fossil fuels.
Applications
= Electricity generation (most common)
= Heating and cooling
= (biofuels, electric vehicles)
All reactions:

 

[White 6]

Nuke energy is STILL toxic, carcinogenic and no one wants radioactive waste in their backyard.
Renewable energy sources are natural resources that replenish themselves, primarily including solar, wind, hydropower, geothermal, and biomasssolar, wind, hydropower, geothermal, and biomass, with emerging options like ocean (tidal/wave) energy; these sources provide clean, sustainable power for electricity, heating, and transportation, reducing reliance on fossil fuels and mitigating climate change.
Major Types of Renewable Energy
= Solar Energy: Captures sunlight using photovoltaic (PV) panels or concentrated solar power (CSP) for electricity or heating.
= Wind Energy: Uses turbines to convert wind's kinetic energy into electricity, with wind driven by solar heating.
= Hydropower: Generates electricity from flowing water, like rivers (dams) or tides.
= Geothermal Energy: Taps into the Earth's internal heat for power and heating/cooling.
= Biomass: Uses organic matter (plants, wood, waste) to produce heat or biofuels.
= Energy: Harnesses energy from tides, waves, and currents.
Key Benefits
= Environmental: Reduces greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution.
= Sustainability: Sources are naturally replenished.
= Energy Security: Decreases dependence on imported fossil fuels.
Applications
= Electricity generation (most common)
= Heating and cooling
= (biofuels, electric vehicles)
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Nuke energy is STILL toxic, carcinogenic and no one wants radioactive waste in their backyard.
Renewable energy sources are natural resources that replenish themselves, primarily including solar, wind, hydropower, geothermal, and biomasssolar, wind, hydropower, geothermal, and biomass, with emerging options like ocean (tidal/wave) energy; these sources provide clean, sustainable power for electricity, heating, and transportation, reducing reliance on fossil fuels and mitigating climate change.
Major Types of Renewable Energy
= Solar Energy: Captures sunlight using photovoltaic (PV) panels or concentrated solar power (CSP) for electricity or heating.
= Wind Energy: Uses turbines to convert wind's kinetic energy into electricity, with wind driven by solar heating.
= Hydropower: Generates electricity from flowing water, like rivers (dams) or tides.
= Geothermal Energy: Taps into the Earth's internal heat for power and heating/cooling.
= Biomass: Uses organic matter (plants, wood, waste) to produce heat or biofuels.
= Energy: Harnesses energy from tides, waves, and currents.
Key Benefits
= Environmental: Reduces greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution.
= Sustainability: Sources are naturally replenished.
= Energy Security: Decreases dependence on imported fossil fuels.
Applications
= Electricity generation (most common)
= Heating and cooling
= (biofuels, electric vehicles)
All reactions:

But, we are closer to sustainable fusion than ever before.

Scientists Are Now 43 Seconds Closer to Producing Limitless Energy

A twisted reactor in Germany just smashed a nuclear fusion record.

www.popularmechanics.com

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

Nuke energy is STILL toxic, carcinogenic and no one wants radioactive waste in their backyard.
Renewable energy sources are natural resources that replenish themselves, primarily including solar, wind, hydropower, geothermal, and biomasssolar, wind, hydropower, geothermal, and biomass, with emerging options like ocean (tidal/wave) energy; these sources provide clean, sustainable power for electricity, heating, and transportation, reducing reliance on fossil fuels and mitigating climate change.
Major Types of Renewable Energy
= Solar Energy: Captures sunlight using photovoltaic (PV) panels or concentrated solar power (CSP) for electricity or heating.
= Wind Energy: Uses turbines to convert wind's kinetic energy into electricity, with wind driven by solar heating.
= Hydropower: Generates electricity from flowing water, like rivers (dams) or tides.
= Geothermal Energy: Taps into the Earth's internal heat for power and heating/cooling.
= Biomass: Uses organic matter (plants, wood, waste) to produce heat or biofuels.
= Energy: Harnesses energy from tides, waves, and currents.
Key Benefits
= Environmental: Reduces greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution.
= Sustainability: Sources are naturally replenished.
= Energy Security: Decreases dependence on imported fossil fuels.
Applications
= Electricity generation (most common)
= Heating and cooling
= (biofuels, electric vehicles)

None of these things will be meeting the energy needs of the planet anytime soon. Nuclear is best option that doesn't involve fossil fuels. My father spent his whole career working at nuclear power plants around the world. They're safe.

 

[White 6]

None of these things will be meeting the energy needs of the planet anytime soon. Nuclear is best option that doesn't involve fossil fuels. My father spent his whole career working at nuclear power plants around the world. They're safe.

A YouTube video report on the breakthrough in Germany, went in depth on the new investment being put into it after that fusion breakthrough, taking sustained fusion for less than a second up to 43 seconds changed the problem from theoretical dream to a proven engineering problem. Not an if, but how to refine and scale. Still not expecting actual production until 2055. But, Fusion is the ticket.

 

[ReinyDays]

None of these things will be meeting the energy needs of the planet anytime soon. Nuclear is best option that doesn't involve fossil fuels. My father spent his whole career working at nuclear power plants around the world. They're safe.

Until they're not ... but still far far better than a hydro-electric dam busting ... Lord have mercy that kills a lot of people in a big hurry ... and ask folks in Lac-Mégantic about how safe oil is ... [ka'boom} ...

Conservation ... and be careful ... and don't site your emergency generators in a tsunami inundation zone ... and AI isn't programmed to care about human safety ...

 

[fncceo]

I tried promoting renewable energy sources and everyone just got angry at me.

 

[1srelluc]

I'd sooner have a nuke plant on my property line than a wind or solar farm.

 

[Hafar1014]

Nuke energy is STILL toxic, carcinogenic and no one wants radioactive waste in their backyard.
Renewable energy sources are natural resources that replenish themselves, primarily including solar, wind, hydropower, geothermal, and biomasssolar, wind, hydropower, geothermal, and biomass, with emerging options like ocean (tidal/wave) energy; these sources provide clean, sustainable power for electricity, heating, and transportation, reducing reliance on fossil fuels and mitigating climate change.
Major Types of Renewable Energy
= Solar Energy: Captures sunlight using photovoltaic (PV) panels or concentrated solar power (CSP) for electricity or heating.
= Wind Energy: Uses turbines to convert wind's kinetic energy into electricity, with wind driven by solar heating.
= Hydropower: Generates electricity from flowing water, like rivers (dams) or tides.
= Geothermal Energy: Taps into the Earth's internal heat for power and heating/cooling.
= Biomass: Uses organic matter (plants, wood, waste) to produce heat or biofuels.
= Energy: Harnesses energy from tides, waves, and currents.
Key Benefits
= Environmental: Reduces greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution.
= Sustainability: Sources are naturally replenished.
= Energy Security: Decreases dependence on imported fossil fuels.
Applications
= Electricity generation (most common)
= Heating and cooling
= (biofuels, electric vehicles)
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Nuke energy is STILL toxic, carcinogenic and no one wants radioactive waste in their backyard.
Renewable energy sources are natural resources that replenish themselves, primarily including solar, wind, hydropower, geothermal, and biomasssolar, wind, hydropower, geothermal, and biomass, with emerging options like ocean (tidal/wave) energy; these sources provide clean, sustainable power for electricity, heating, and transportation, reducing reliance on fossil fuels and mitigating climate change.
Major Types of Renewable Energy
= Solar Energy: Captures sunlight using photovoltaic (PV) panels or concentrated solar power (CSP) for electricity or heating.
= Wind Energy: Uses turbines to convert wind's kinetic energy into electricity, with wind driven by solar heating.
= Hydropower: Generates electricity from flowing water, like rivers (dams) or tides.
= Geothermal Energy: Taps into the Earth's internal heat for power and heating/cooling.
= Biomass: Uses organic matter (plants, wood, waste) to produce heat or biofuels.
= Energy: Harnesses energy from tides, waves, and currents.
Key Benefits
= Environmental: Reduces greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution.
= Sustainability: Sources are naturally replenished.
= Energy Security: Decreases dependence on imported fossil fuels.
Applications
= Electricity generation (most common)
= Heating and cooling
= (biofuels, electric vehicles)
All reactions:

Its the cleanest most reliable lowest cost way to meet the demand of the future economy. Renewables will never meet the demand of AI and data banks and will cause a catastrophe failure. They are driving manufacturing out of Europe already and they are coming here.

Unreliable intermittent high cost green energy is DOA in America. Humans dont make the earth warm CO2 doesnt make the earth warm and most climate research is bull shit

 

[DGS49]

Nuclear power is the only major industry that was not created with the profit motive. Original speculation was that it would be so cheap that it made no sense to charge for it. If only...

The commercial nuclear power industry in the U.S. has never had a radiation-caused death in its history, dating back to 1953. The "Three Mile Island Disaster" is more noteworthy for what it did NOT cause than for what it did. Not a single person, born or unborn, got sick in any way from that "disaster." It was not surprisingly just a big Cluster ****. (Parenthetically, the Fukushima disaster was the same: there was one fatality at the plant: an old guy had a heart attack. No one was harmed by radiation).

Spent Fuel is only called "radioactive waste" by ignorami, as it is completely recyclable and the main reasons why it is not recycled are political and not technical.

The U.S. government initially made a "deal" with electricity providers and the public, as follows: A couple cents per kWh would be added to everyone's electric bill, the money would be sent to Washington, and the Feds would build a repository for the spent fuel. In the meantime, the power plants would store the spent fuel on site, waiting for the Feds to give the go-ahead to ship it to the Federal repository. The repository was built into a mountain in Nevada called Yucca Mountain, but the locals following a long line of NIMBY bullshit, commissioned a "study" that found that if the Facility were used as planned, there was a slight chance that in ten thousand years or so,some radioactive "stuff" would leach into the Las Vegas water supply. With powerful Senator Harry "Light-brain" Reid at the head of the parade, Yucca Mountain was shut down before the first shipment of spent fuel was ever sent there.

There is another perfectly safe repository in New Mexico called WIPP, and even the locals are fine with it, but it has not been used for a couple of bullshit reasons, including the entirely reasonable fear that every ******* city, town, hamlet, and unincorporated piece of dirt in the U.S. will pass an ordinance forbidding the passage of these spent fuel casks (steel reinforced concrete) through their environs, making the whole thing not worth the trouble. So the spent fuel remains at the nuclear power stations, gathering dust.

Nuclear power is "expensive"m (the word doesn't do it justice) because of regulatory neurosis. The cost of each plant has exploded to many times the original cost estimate because the design and construction cannot go forward as it does in a normal project. Every element has to be inspected in Real Time, and the inspectors are hell-bent on justifying their existence. You may hate me for writing it, but Donald Trump could build one efficiently and on time, simply by bribing the bureaucrats.

It is the cleanest, most reliable source of power, with the possible exceptions of hydro or geothermal.

It appears that the only real hope for the industry is Small Modular Reactors, built in factories and erected on site. Unless there is some viable new tech that has escaped my notice.

 

[Hafar1014]

Nuclear power is the only major industry that was not created with the profit motive. Original speculation was that it would be so cheap that it made no sense to charge for it. If only...

The commercial nuclear power industry in the U.S. has never had a radiation-caused death in its history, dating back to 1953. The "Three Mile Island Disaster" is more noteworthy for what it did NOT cause than for what it did. Not a single person, born or unborn, got sick in any way from that "disaster." It was not surprisingly just a big Cluster ****. (Parenthetically, the Fukushima disaster was the same: there was one fatality at the plant: an old guy had a heart attack. No one was harmed by radiation).

Spent Fuel is only called "radioactive waste" by ignorami, as it is completely recyclable and the main reasons why it is not recycled are political and not technical.

The U.S. government initially made a "deal" with electricity providers and the public, as follows: A couple cents per kWh would be added to everyone's electric bill, the money would be sent to Washington, and the Feds would build a repository for the spent fuel. In the meantime, the power plants would store the spent fuel on site, waiting for the Feds to give the go-ahead to ship it to the Federal repository. The repository was built into a mountain in Nevada called Yucca Mountain, but the locals following a long line of NIMBY bullshit, commissioned a "study" that found that if the Facility were used as planned, there was a slight chance that in ten thousand years or so,some radioactive "stuff" would leach into the Las Vegas water supply. With powerful Senator Harry "Light-brain" Reid at the head of the parade, Yucca Mountain was shut down before the first shipment of spent fuel was ever sent there.

There is another perfectly safe repository in New Mexico called WIPP, and even the locals are fine with it, but it has not been used for a couple of bullshit reasons, including the entirely reasonable fear that every ******* city, town, hamlet, and unincorporated piece of dirt in the U.S. will pass an ordinance forbidding the passage of these spent fuel casks (steel reinforced concrete) through their environs, making the whole thing not worth the trouble. So the spent fuel remains at the nuclear power stations, gathering dust.

Nuclear power is "expensive"m (the word doesn't do it justice) because of regulatory neurosis. The cost of each plant has exploded to many times the original cost estimate because the design and construction cannot go forward as it does in a normal project. Every element has to be inspected in Real Time, and the inspectors are hell-bent on justifying their existence. You may hate me for writing it, but Donald Trump could build one efficiently and on time, simply by bribing the bureaucrats.

It is the cleanest, most reliable source of power, with the possible exceptions of hydro or geothermal.

It appears that the only real hope for the industry is Small Modular Reactors, built in factories and erected on site. Unless there is some viable new tech that has escaped my notice.

These small reactors are based on the ones used in subs

 

[martybegan]

A YouTube video report on the breakthrough in Germany, went in depth on the new investment being put into it after that fusion breakthrough, taking sustained fusion for less than a second up to 43 seconds changed the problem from theoretical dream to a proven engineering problem. Not an if, but how to refine and scale. Still not expecting actual production until 2055. But, Fusion is the ticket.

Fusion has been 30 years away for 60 years.

 

[White 6]

Fusion has been 30 years away for 60 years.

Nope. Further than that, as it had never be proven possible in practice, only theory. Now, not a theory, but a proven sustained event, reducing further development to an engineer process of refining, scaling, and construction, not creation from technological non-existence.

 

[martybegan]

Nope. Further than that, as it had never be proven possible in practice, only theory. Now, not a theory, but a proven sustained event, reducing further development to an engineer process of refining, scaling, and construction, not creation from technological non-existence.

And probably still 30 years out unless they are hiding stuff from us

 

[White 6]

And probably still 30 years out unless they are hiding stuff from us

The number I quoted above was 2055, so don't sell your oil stock yet. Let your kids deal with it. You won't be there. Sorry, but, you and I will almost undoubtable miss it, probably only around for construction starts in multiple countries.

 

[martybegan]

The number I quoted above was 2055, so don't sell your oil stock yet. Let your kids deal with it. You won't be there. Sorry, but, you and I will almost undoubtable miss it, probably only around for construction starts in multiple countries.

2055 ill be around 80, if I make it that far, so if you are accurate maybe.

And remember when I talk about 60 years ago, I'm talking about the 1960's, not the 1940's.

 

[White 6]

2055 ill be around 80, if I make it that far, so if you are accurate maybe.

And remember when I talk about 60 years ago, I'm talking about the 1960's, not the 1940's.

Dude!! You're a friggin young guy? I thought you an old goat. I had no idea, you could just be approaching 50. OK. I won't be there. 30 years would put me at 102. I not only feel good, but operate well and look good, but I ain't got 30 years. You can expect to see it, though.

 

[martybegan]

Dude!! You're a friggin young guy? I thought you an old goat. I had no idea, you could just be approaching 50. OK. I won't be there. 30 years would put me at 102. I not only feel good, but operate well and look good, but I ain't got 30 years. You can expect to see it, though.

50 isn't "young", but it is younger.

You can tell I'm gen X by my use of the term "poseur"

 

[White 6]

50 isn't "young", but it is younger.

You can tell I'm gen X by my use of the term "poseur"

Trust me. This is 2025. I didn't even take up skiing until 60, after retirement. 50 is like 40 in the olden days. That pic is only two years old, the day after an 11 mile hike with pack and a 4,000 foot plus elevation change, both ways. You got this, so plan, execute, and make it happen.

 

[toobfreak]

But, we are closer to sustainable fusion than ever before.

Like being in a jet at 30,000 feet and moving up to 30,000 feet and 1-inch.

Only 93 million more miles to go.

But yes, they CAN initiate a tiny point of actual fusion, but they can only sustain it for an instant.

What they are trying to do in a tiny laboratory ordinarily takes a star at least twice the mass of Jupiter to do.

 

[martybegan]

Like being in a jet at 30,000 feet and moving up to 30,000 feet and 1-inch.

Only 93 million more miles to go.

But yes, they CAN initiate a tiny point of actual fusion, but they can only sustain it for an instant.

What they are trying to do in a tiny laboratory ordinarily takes a star at least twice the mass of Jupiter to do.

Actually we've been able to initiate a pretty big amount of fusion since the 1950's, we just can't control it.