Electric Vehicles?

[Swerd]

Almost accurate regarding building nuke plants.,
There hasn't been a new nuke plant built in over 30 year from scratch, until now. Plant Vogtle, 1st US nuclear reactor built from scratch in decades, enters commercial operation in Georgia at a huge $17 billion and seven years late.

Maybe it will not cost a fortune to operate.

I was surprised to read of that Vogtle nuclear power plant recently opened in Georgia. It is the exception to what has happened since the near disaster at Three Mile Island in 1979, and the genuine disaster at Chernobyl in 1986.

Ever since TMI and Chernobyl, the public discussion over nuclear power plants shifted from the technical practical, cost vs. benefit, to a near hysterical public reaction to perceived safety threats, both in the reactor itself and to the unsolved long-term question of radioactive reactor waste product storage. Despite the recent Vogtle reactor, these issues have not been resolved. Right or wrong, the public has made nuclear reactors a political hot potato that no politician wants to touch.

Three Mile Island accident - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

• In total, 51 U.S. nuclear reactors were canceled between 1980 and 1984.
• The 1979 TMI accident did not initiate the demise of the U.S. nuclear power industry, but it did halt its historic growth.
• At the time of the TMI incident, 129 nuclear power plants had been approved, but of those, only 53 (which were not already operating) were completed.
• Until 2012, no U.S. nuclear power plant had been authorized to begin construction since the year before TMI.

 

[cpp]

I was surprised to read of that Vogtle nuclear power plant recently opened in Georgia. It is the exception to what has happened since the near disaster at Three Mile Island in 1979, and the genuine disaster at Chernobyl in 1986.

Ever since TMI and Chernobyl, the public discussion over nuclear power plants shifted from technical, cost vs. benefit, to a near hysterical public reaction to perceived safety threats, both in the reactor itself and to the unsolved long-term question of radioactive reactor waste product storage. Despite the recent Vogtle reactor, these issues have not been resolved. Right or wrong, the public has made nuclear reactors a political hot potato that no politician wants to touch.

Three Mile Island accident - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

• In total, 51 U.S. nuclear reactors were canceled between 1980 and 1984.
• The 1979 TMI accident did not initiate the demise of the U.S. nuclear power industry, but it did halt its historic growth.
• At the time of the TMI incident, 129 nuclear power plants had been approved, but of those, only 53 (which were not already operating) were completed.
• Until 2012, no U.S. nuclear power plant had been authorized to begin construction since the year before TMI.

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The failure of US nuclear technology to take off either domestically or abroad is not to do with the technology itself. Instead, it is to do with “poor project management and execution” in the US, as well as “higher labour cost. The Crystal River plant which I had friends working there, would still be in operation today if not for poor decisions made by the owners. Progress Energy Florida took a reckless approach to what should have been a routine maintenance upgrade. As a result, the concrete containment wall that houses the reactor cracked in October 2009. The Crystal River nuclear plant never again produced another watt of electricity and was decommissioned.

 

[isolar8001]

How do you store the highly radioactive spent reactor fuel?

You saw what happened when they stored all that nuclear waste on the moon...
"Never Forget Moonbase Alpha"

 

[cpp]

You saw what happened when they stored all that nuclear waste on the moon...
"Never Forget Moonbase Alpha"

yep a TV show drives reality. Don't worry we humans will screw up the moon in due time.

 

[ryanosaur]

yep a TV show drives reality. Don't worry we humans will screw up the moon in due time.

Fortunately, there isn't much we can do to the moon unless its truly hollow!





Except maybe break it or crash it back into the Earth.

...

So ya, we'll find way to fcuk it up proper.

 

[Swerd]

The failure of US nuclear technology to take off either domestically or abroad is not to do with the technology itself. Instead, it is to do with “poor project management and execution” in the US, as well as “higher labour cost.

A good point.

Maybe I'll edit my earlier phrase "… the public discussion over nuclear power plants shifted from technical, cost vs. benefit", changing the word technical to practical.

 

[mtrycrafts]

Fortunately, there isn't much we can do to the moon unless its truly hollow!





Except maybe break it or crash it back into the Earth.

...

So ya, we'll find way to fcuk it up proper.

Maybe we can do to it what was in the movie Soldier, a planet for all our junk, trash, etc.

 

[mtrycrafts]

.... How do you store the highly radioactive spent reactor fuel? ...

Send it into the sun.
I read that this has been considered...

 

[ryanosaur]

Maybe we can do to it what was in the movie Soldier, a planet for all our junk, trash, etc.

I always thought we should just hurl sh!t at the Sun. Nuclear waste, trash... you name it.

 

[ryanosaur]

Send it into the sun.
I read that this has been considered...

Ha! You beat me to it.

 

[Swerd]

Send it into the sun.
I read that this has been considered...

I always thought we should just hurl sh!t at the Sun. Nuclear waste, trash... you name it.

Do it at night … that way, no one will see it.

 

[mtrycrafts]

Do it at night … that way, no one will see it.

Just don't publicize it. Call it state secrets.

A night launch might turn into a bunch of UFO sightings.

 

[Swerd]

Change the name, keep the logo.

National Atmospheric and Space Sanitation Administration

 

[mtrycrafts]

I always thought we should just hurl sh!t at the Sun. Nuclear waste, trash... you name it.

Why not. Sun doesn't care. It will be totally recycled.

 

[Swerd]

The new NASA

 

[cpp]

Maybe we can do to it what was in the movie Soldier, a planet for all our junk, trash, etc.

Oh yes, a planetary junk yard. While they are at, move all of that space junk now floating around in orbit above the earth and add it to this junk yard. Sounds like a good business for Musk, instead of Space Command we can have Space Junk Command, where junk meets it final resting place, and the pulverization from meteors and asteroids is free. And a perfect place for junk supervising robots. Ex: of the junk

"While there are about 2,000 active satellites orbiting Earth at the moment, there are also 3,000 dead ones littering space. What's more, there are around 34,000 pieces of space junk bigger than 10 centimetres in size and millions of smaller pieces "

 

[Mikado463]

more electricity fonder ...........

Comments On The Insanity Of EPA's New Power Plant Rule — Manhattan Contrarian

On May 23, EPA put out its long-expected proposed Rule designed to eliminate, or nearly so, all so-called “greenhouse gas” emissions from the electricity-generation sector of the economy. The proposal came with the very long title: “New Source Performance Standards for GHG Emissions from

www.manhattancontrarian.com

 

[j_garcia]

Took her to drive the Ionic 6. They are now offering some pretty good deals on the 5 because the 6 is more popular, but the 6 is still cheaper lol. 0.99% financing if you buy, $7500 discount if you lease. Wasn't sure she would like it as much as the Polestar, but she said it was fine too.

 

[William Lemmerhirt]

Polestar…..

 

[panteragstk]

Polestar…..

Oh good, it's not just me.