What To Do With America's Nuclear Waste?
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- čas přidán 8. 09. 2024
- Nuclear power plants generate about one-fifth of U.S. electricity, and don't release the greenhouse gases scientists have linked to climate change. But tens of thousands of tons of spent fuel rods are stranded at the nation's 104 commercial nuclear reactors. They can't be moved because construction of a proposed nuclear waste dump outside Las Vegas has been halted, and the state of Nevada is fighting to make sure it will never be completed. So where else could all that nuclear waste go?
Correspondent Lee Patrick Sullivan visits one community that's already home to a nuclear waste storage site that could one day also accept spent fuel rods from America's nuclear power plants.
It's NOT waste. It's spent fuel. And even that is inaccurate. There is still a lot of energy available in spent fuel. It just needs to be processed to remove the prior non-fissionable decay products. Right now, it's cheaper to use new fuel than reprocess. But once the cost of new fuel passes the cost of reprocessing, the spent fuel will be very valuable.
There is a better solution to storage, use it all up. Why aren't we looking into Thorium reactors which we can use to burn a large portion of the nuclear waste and generate power at the same time?
Now that I watched this and I thought this.
Would the waste, over time, be crushed so much that it would go into a critical state, that it would go off like a nuclear bomb?
creating a run a way nuclear reaction is actually quite difficult even when intentionally trying to do so. so not an issue.
They have done the same thing in Germany, radioactive material in a salt mine. now the water flows into the mine through the salt .. does not work
WIPP deals with waste that is far more volatile than conventional nuclear power plant spent fuel. Fuel rods can sit in dry casks indefinitely, but runoff waste from processes like producing weapons-grade plutonium is legitimately frightening stuff that requires special segregation.
Spent nuclear fuel is also still 95% useable fuel, we just haven't yet developed the Gen IV reactor systems and ideal fuel blends that can use it. But it works on paper and we've done it physically before.
The problem with a space disposal is that potential launch failure could contaminate the whole planet. And it's also very expensive. It has been pretty much abandoned.
The problem with geologic burial is that it's difficult to predict geology, groundwater flows, and human intrusions over long time periods.
The barrels can't be crushed by the salt. It isn't dense enough.
Send it to the sun on reliable rockets. 1,300 people? You need like 1 forklift driver to move stuff around, some safety people/inspectors, an employee to keep the elevators operating and some management. Where the freak do you need 1,300 people?
US needs to keep and store its supply of protonated deuterium. Once refined, It can easily be made to release free protons, which will eventually be used as an energy source and be worth their weight in gold, and assist us in long space flight. There is a danger to releasing free protons, and they must be stored in chemical batteries, or in another way. The universe only supplied us with so much free protons, and if they are let to sink to the Earth's center, it will cause geologic instability and be very hard to get them back. If sold, this material will be used by our enemies in various ways and be wasted away.
Is WIPP where a container exploded due to the wrong type of absorbent litter being used in it?
Explain how "climate changes" could erode salt over a mile underground. Temperature alone is not an agent of erosion or weathering.
Practically all radiation leaking from the canisters would be absorbed by the layers of rock and salt above it. We're talking 1-2 miles.
No.
A nuclear bomb is a very complex procedure that must be carefully coordinated. Simply impossible with this waste.
Oh yeah? And then (assuming that the rocket won't blow up to in a juicy radioactive rain) where would you get uranium for ammo for the A-10 minigun from? Sounds like a joke, but it was proven that USAF have been using spent fuel rod waste for penetrators of the 30mm ammo for the gatling gun in the A-10's. With of course a generous rimjob from Department of Defence.
At least the USA doesn't dump its nuclear waste in the ocean like France and UK.
I wonder?
Yes the did,ore in the soil,dont you know Hanford washington?Just as criminal as the bastards in the rest of the world,ORE WORSE!
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dirac17 watch that video and come back
They dumped it in the Atlantic Ocean, and what about the whole island that had to be completely concreted over and is now sinking into the sea?
Truck in tons of salt to Yucca Mountain, and cover the waste container's with the salt, bottom, top, and all sides.
has anyone ever figured out how to get the water out of nuclear wast
Maybe they could get the FDA to let them put it in our toothpaste, body lotion and other hygiene products
I am a total noob at this and while I am typing this question down I want the pro's and true fans to know that I am currently holding a beer can in my hand.
Why not shooting nuclear waste into deep space? Build a vassel for the rods like the shuttle or small sattelite and make it autodistruct after it has reached a certain distance from our solar system?
It's time to shut them down for good
Send this stuff to space to the sun or another planet
Breeder reactors and conversion to Thorium Flouride.
Stop Nuclear energy
Citation please
Stuff I'd only trust Homer Simpson to handle...
space elovator :)
windmills got too expensive, it became abt oil instead. the petrol hits super low right after toyota's hydrogen car. lol meanwhile magnetic drive motors produce upwards of 88% efficiency. if it was abt the good of everyone jp morgan would've paid tesla
No storage thanks to Harry Ried.
They should have mentioned that only 10% of the waste can be recycled, which is so VERY little... for more detail check this out:
/watch?v=ZWnx8cm3dDg
Send it into space
Taste like salt... not like nuclear waste... eu... lol
salt rules
but yeah for sure get elon musk to make a train rocket that sends huge balls of trash into the sun for great fireworks
Problem solved
make it into toys and put it into the McHappy Meals
can we shoot the waste into the sun ?
Sure, but it would be too expensive.
Best commenton the thread!
Build machines out of the waste to counteract harsh enviroments of other planets !
linrkirk Are you?Who's willing going to paid for the couple trillions dollars for keep building new Space Shuttles and have managed many pilots to take it there very closed sun 1million degrees and shoots the radioactive materials wastes to it.
Keep the sun alive and earth clean ? Use the space station launches to fire off the waste to the sun maybe
five words DON'T DUMP IT IN MY IDAHO! we are sick and tired of America using Idaho as their own privet dumping grounds. INEL needs to be shutdown and this trash needs to be removed from my state.
I agree with you
every day I see truck and trains loaded with nuclear waste going through my town WE DON'T NEED IT the DOE is contaminating Idahos drinking water
and SL1 west of Yellow stone
Idaho a beautiful state
indeed I don't need nuclear trash polluting it
just blow it up!
And than????its in the air....i dont care,i hate people!look!what the do.
I dont want humans to leave this planet though, i like humans
poop