Author Topic: Long term storage of nuclear waste in other countries  (Read 4084 times)

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Re: Long term storage of nuclear waste in other countries
« Reply #26 on: April 27, 2022, 07:39:43 PM »
Glad this thread was exhumed.

Very good article.  The substance "thoron" was a new one on me.  It's Rn-220 and I guess it has enough special properties to be named thoron.

Of especial interest to me was:

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Overwhelming majorities of self-identified Democrats, women and those without college degrees opposed nuclear power. More Republicans than Democrats supported expanding nuclear power in a Pew Research Center survey from January. A plurality of U.S. adults, 35%, favored encouraging production of nuclear power, while 26% wanted the energy source discouraged and 37% said it should be neither encouraged nor discouraged.[/size][/b]

It figures.  Man, there are times I want to switch from lifelong "family Democrat," to Terrycrat, but I'm stuck in my ways and sometimes it's beneficial to identify as a Democrat instead of the raging hyperconservative I really am.

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Re: Long term storage of nuclear waste in other countries
« Reply #27 on: April 27, 2022, 11:39:43 PM »
Putting the "waste" under the ocean in a subduction zone doesn't strike me as carefully researched.
What happens if the burial area is exposed to the sea before the waste is drawn down into the mantle?  How many years/decades will it take for the waste to be sealed away from the ocean?  If the half life of this waste is in the tens of thousands of years, what is the possibility of some coming back up in a volcanic eruption?
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Re: Long term storage of nuclear waste in other countries
« Reply #28 on: April 28, 2022, 07:28:19 AM »
Explain it like I'm five:

We gather the uranium or whatever from the Earth in small amounts. 
We process those small amounts into larger, more useable chunks.
We use those chunks until they are less useful, but still radioactive.
We then dispose of those chunks.

If the material is still dangerously radioactive, why can't we:

Keep using the chunks in another system, or
Reprocess the material so it is still useful, or
Grind it up into the original size and put it back where we found it.
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Re: Long term storage of nuclear waste in other countries
« Reply #29 on: April 28, 2022, 08:06:09 AM »
Thread veer:

This is the 25 year price chart for Uranium. I wonder what was going on in 2007?



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Re: Long term storage of nuclear waste in other countries
« Reply #30 on: April 28, 2022, 08:29:29 AM »
Explain it like I'm five:

We gather the uranium or whatever from the Earth in small amounts. 
We process those small amounts into larger, more useable chunks.
We use those chunks until they are less useful, but still radioactive.
We then dispose of those chunks.

If the material is still dangerously radioactive, why can't we:

Keep using the chunks in another system, or
Reprocess the material so it is still useful, or
Grind it up into the original size and put it back where we found it.

They do that in France.  We don't do it here because President Carter said we can't, and nobody has the balls to rescind that order.
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