Nuclear power: clean but dangerous (but not why you think)
Posted by Josh Taylor / November 24, 2017
The pollution price you pay for juice from nuclear power is tiny. If you compare a nuclear power plant and a fossil fuel plant, the nuclear plant produces about three two-liter soda bottles worth of pollution for one kilowatt hour of energy. A fossil fuel plant produces about a bathtub’s worth of pollution for the same amount of energy. So why aren’t there more plants? It’s not about the fear of meltdowns, but rather the problem of nuclear waste.
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Most of what has been defined as “nuclear waste” is reusable energy. It has been deemed as waste, because the government will not close the fuel cycle, by recycling nuclear fuel. The true waste per kilowatt hr of power from a nuclear plant is almost too small to measure. The true waste is highly radioactive,but is also a form of re-usable energy.
WC Jordan nails it. France depends very heavily on nuc power and began studying how to deal with the waste over a decade ago. Not America. Build first worry about consequences decades later. France separates waste from material that can be reused. Recycling. Then turn the waste into a ceramic that withstand a volcano, then bury it where it so deep that it will never affect our water. Add to that, U.S. engineers/scientists designed fast reactors which can ‘burn’
(transform) the waste and can produce power while deactivating the waste greatly. Why hasn’t America pursued this ? ? ? ? Ask your senator, that is after he’s stopped talking to a coal lobbyist !