Let’s see: The waste itself is a solid and not prone to dissolution in water. Water that is just H2O has at most a radioactive half life of about 14 days and is a very low level threat in any case. Dilution in a river would make it meaningless. So long as more coolant were injected to keep the waste cool there would be ZERO problem with a leak of that sort…..It is pretty obivious that Ariail knows ZERO about things nuclear too…
I was an NEC 3384 Chief Electrician’s Mate nuclear field in the USN..As for my avatar it that is the character Barnette Orangello from the anime Vandread.
And, as an aside, the strontium that is in our water supply, thanks to above-ground and Pacific Ocean nuclear tests, is why our bones and teeth glow with black light. Calcium does not fluoresce. A college biology professor stated that the replacement of calcium by strontium-90 is an irreversible reaction. If this is true, perhaps it can explain the increasing diagnoses of osteoporosis. It also means that treating that condition with calcium supplements would be a fool’s errand, yet that’s what is recommended to patients. Either we’re foolish, or my professor was incorrect.
Hmm, enoki: my son graduated from Charleston as nuke ET in the Navy, went up to NY to run the reactor up there with the folks from GE. Interesting thing was that in his class at Charleston, he had the highest exposure of anyone in his class, we had a mill in town, and two uranium mines 20 miles NW of town back in the 50’s. A kid in his class raised right outside the fence of a nuclear plant had no significant “background history”. Nuclear power sites aren’t “automatically” any problem with radiation. At San Onofre, the problem was the destruction of sea life (diversity, only urchins survived) in the outflow because of temperature changes, not radiation.
Our mine sites were identified by the GE and Navy guys as one of the most, if not THE most dangerous “clean up” sites in the U.S. when they read the report, that Kerr McGee (owners) said was a perfectly safe place! It was spooky indeed to fly over the site at night and see the pond there glowing!
Savannah River, Hanford, Rocky Flats, all have problems related to transport in water.
Yep. And Fukushima was private industry, and the West Virginia chemical spill was private industry, and Love Canal was private industry, and every single mine-related Superfund site was private industray, but that in no way affects your evaluation that government is always the problem. You need a more resilient philosophy.
Addendum Enoki: as you should also know , the Navy’s reactor designs are MUCH safer than any of our current commercial designs . .. I’m not anti-nuke, just want less mining, using more of what we’ve already got for fuels, and think fusion would be fantastic if we can achieve safe containment.
I trust corporates, like Kerr McGee, and GE for that matter as much as I trust my dachshund to kill and eat a pack of wolves.
Plus the fact that the “power that will be too cheap to meter” (remember that promise?) is generated by plants that are always off schedule and over budget. Here in Georgia, whenever Plant Vogtle construction runs over, the difference is charged to the current rate payers.
Enoki over 10 years ago
Let’s see: The waste itself is a solid and not prone to dissolution in water. Water that is just H2O has at most a radioactive half life of about 14 days and is a very low level threat in any case. Dilution in a river would make it meaningless. So long as more coolant were injected to keep the waste cool there would be ZERO problem with a leak of that sort…..It is pretty obivious that Ariail knows ZERO about things nuclear too…
mgkmkr over 10 years ago
Okay, everybody raise your hand who trusts nuclear plants in their back yard, and believes they are safe from leaks
Enoki over 10 years ago
I was an NEC 3384 Chief Electrician’s Mate nuclear field in the USN..As for my avatar it that is the character Barnette Orangello from the anime Vandread.
I Play One On TV over 10 years ago
And, as an aside, the strontium that is in our water supply, thanks to above-ground and Pacific Ocean nuclear tests, is why our bones and teeth glow with black light. Calcium does not fluoresce. A college biology professor stated that the replacement of calcium by strontium-90 is an irreversible reaction. If this is true, perhaps it can explain the increasing diagnoses of osteoporosis. It also means that treating that condition with calcium supplements would be a fool’s errand, yet that’s what is recommended to patients. Either we’re foolish, or my professor was incorrect.
Dtroutma over 10 years ago
Hmm, enoki: my son graduated from Charleston as nuke ET in the Navy, went up to NY to run the reactor up there with the folks from GE. Interesting thing was that in his class at Charleston, he had the highest exposure of anyone in his class, we had a mill in town, and two uranium mines 20 miles NW of town back in the 50’s. A kid in his class raised right outside the fence of a nuclear plant had no significant “background history”. Nuclear power sites aren’t “automatically” any problem with radiation. At San Onofre, the problem was the destruction of sea life (diversity, only urchins survived) in the outflow because of temperature changes, not radiation.
Our mine sites were identified by the GE and Navy guys as one of the most, if not THE most dangerous “clean up” sites in the U.S. when they read the report, that Kerr McGee (owners) said was a perfectly safe place! It was spooky indeed to fly over the site at night and see the pond there glowing!
Savannah River, Hanford, Rocky Flats, all have problems related to transport in water.
ARodney over 10 years ago
Yep. And Fukushima was private industry, and the West Virginia chemical spill was private industry, and Love Canal was private industry, and every single mine-related Superfund site was private industray, but that in no way affects your evaluation that government is always the problem. You need a more resilient philosophy.
dzw3030 over 10 years ago
So, you think he made a typo? :-)
Dtroutma over 10 years ago
Addendum Enoki: as you should also know , the Navy’s reactor designs are MUCH safer than any of our current commercial designs . .. I’m not anti-nuke, just want less mining, using more of what we’ve already got for fuels, and think fusion would be fantastic if we can achieve safe containment.
I trust corporates, like Kerr McGee, and GE for that matter as much as I trust my dachshund to kill and eat a pack of wolves.
kaffekup over 10 years ago
Plus the fact that the “power that will be too cheap to meter” (remember that promise?) is generated by plants that are always off schedule and over budget. Here in Georgia, whenever Plant Vogtle construction runs over, the difference is charged to the current rate payers.