Ok i know this will be a mile long thread


Nuclear energy is cheap and it releases less radiationt hen then coal (coal releases radioactive argon gasses), A nuclear power plant cannot blow up in a nuclear explosion, only steam, also there has never been a meltdown, 3 mile islands secondary cooling system shut it down, chernobyl had a steam explosion which shut it down.


And the steam explosion at cherobyl occured because stupid engineers were doing stupid tests.

I want Fusion Nuclear Plant! Fission is just too old :)

When mankind can achieve nuclear fussion we probably would have already been wiped out by another Chernobyl or the super nova of our sun.

How so? Nuclear Fusion is coming. The Tokamak Fusion Power has reported generate power out enough to break even with the power in. It's progressing and I hope to see it before I am old :)

But actually, Nuclear Fusion too is rather old. Hm ... I want power harnessed from anti-particle! 1 gram of anti hydrogen will generate enough power to run a car for 100000 years! Now, that's power!

I'm all for Nuclear power as long as we develop a safe, vaible method for storing the spent waste (Yucca Mt just doesn't seem good enough).

The best thing, however, is to reduce dependence! Solar Panels for all! Cover your house, your body, your cat!

And the steam explosion at cherobyl what was it that happened at 3 mile island ? :laugh:

I think we should run a very heavily insulated cable to the sun and plug it into the sun, then plug it into the earth, we would get plenty of power from our sun then.

i dont mind nuclear. lets face it we need more power, nuclear can be the cleanest sustainable way that can provide all the power we need. we can cover the land in windmills and hep dams and tidal and geothermal and one old granny might get enough power for her leccy blanket. nukes and reprocessing is the way to go.

I'm pretty much neutral on it. Nuclear fission isn't really a low-waste solution to our energy problems. Then again, coal/gas/oil will soon run out.

Originally posted by FHDave
I want power harnessed from anti-particle! 1 gram of anti hydrogen will generate enough power to run a car for 100000 years! Now, that's power!
I second the vote for anti-matter!

unfortunately those 10000000years of energy are delivered in .000001 of a second lol. in the form of a loud bang.

Nuclear is the way to go because our power demands.

Solar is good, but it is expensive and is useless in anything other than perfect sunlight. However, I've read about a process where large solar arrays (satellites) could be put in geostationary orbit high enough where they will not be affected by the shadow of the planet. The power is beamed down by radio waves from the satellite and is picked up by large antennas and reconverted into electricity back on the ground. Since the energy is in the form of radio waves, cloud cover won't affect the energy though some energy will be lost during the journey to earth. If the satellite misses the antenna, the radio beam is completely harmless, and the only real waste is in the form of heat which is on the antennas.

The techology exists to do this, but the things would cost trillions. I'm sure this power method is already used by the military though.

Originally posted by MGCJerry
Nuclear is the way to go because our power demands.

Solar is good, but it is expensive and is useless in anything other than perfect sunlight. However, I've read about a process where large solar arrays (satellites) could be put in geostationary orbit high enough where they will not be affected by the shadow of the planet. The power is beamed down by radio waves from the satellite and is picked up by large antennas and reconverted into electricity back on the ground. Since the energy is in the form of radio waves, cloud cover won't affect the energy though some energy will be lost during the journey to earth. If the satellite misses the antenna, the radio beam is completely harmless, and the only real waste is in the form of heat which is on the antennas.

The techology exists to do this, but the things would cost trillions. I'm sure this power method is already used by the military though.

Problem is the beaming down will create LARGE amounts of radiation

Antimatter can be safely controlled, in a million years, unless people agree to solar panels and windmills( i do) nuclear is the only way to go since were gonna run out of fuel

If more efficient reactors can be built and used here (like the ones France uses) Then I am for it.

But the fact that the waste takes 10000 years to decompose makes me a little uncomfortable

but it can be reprocessed right?

Originally posted by richy
but it can be reprocessed right?
Nuclear waste? No. Unless you can eat it I guess, but I wouldn't try it.

oh damn. wonder what those guys at sellafield do all day then:) must be pretty funky getting paid to eat spent fuel all day.

it can be reprocessed into fuel for breeder reactors, and that can be burried