Why the FUCK are we investing in the renewables meme? Nuclear

>>131590993
The power of nuclear reactors is immense. But can someone tell me what sustainable solution there is to the waste?

>>131591141

Can't we just work on rocket technology and shoot that shit into space when it becomes economically viable?

>>131591141
put it back where the ore was dug up from
the hole is already there

>>131591141
make tunnels in stable bedrock in non-earthquakeous areas like Finland is and let them stay there forever or send all the waste to space

>>131590993
leftist faggots.

>>131590993
Renewable energy is a scam to funnel money.

>>131591141
do what the fucking french do
recycle and reuse as much as possible and dispose of the rest

>>131591141
dump it in israel

Nuclear power is the best solution to multiple problems.

>>131591141
1. Re-use the waste
2. The last <1% of the waste that exists after all reprocessing and re-use can either be safely dumped into the ocean, stored in pools of water like current fuel is, or stored in some meme mine like yucca mountain for 300 years.

It's not an issue. Your average yearly oil spill has caused more ecological disaster than every radioactive incident in the world since nuclear was invented, combined.

>>131591141
>waste
modern reactors use the waste from the older ones.

nuclear is a massive meme and anyone who says otherwise is retarded

>>131591141
Pay some African country to store the waste.

>>131591607
Explain

>>131591207
Yeah then we get Fukashima x1000 when the rocket an hero's before making it to space

>>131591361
This. Deep boreholes all the way.

Vitrify it, then put it down a deep hole.

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>>131591141
wait 300 years because thorium half life is tiny compared to uranium

I think the main problem with nuclear energy is that building the plants is really fucking expensive. That and Chernobyl/Fukushima gave it a bad reputation

>>131590993
People are wrongly afraid of nuclear power

>>131591141
Bury it until we come up with a better solution. We have a basically finished long term storage facility under Yucca Mountain that can store the next 100 years-worth of nuclear waste and it's just sitting there unused because of liberal politicians.

>>131594761
Thorium is a meme until someone designs a reactor that can successfully do an in-situ Th232-U233 fuel cycle fission combined with molten salt. Oak Ridge demonstrated half the concept in the 60s, but we're still a long way from a viable reactor design.

>>131594994
There is new reactor tech comming out that is litterally self contained and portable. You can actually retrofit old coal plants with them.

>>131591141
Dump it in Antarctica and tell the hippies to go fuck themselves.

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>>131594994
The construction of the plant is actually not too bad in places where they're built efficiently, such as the Koreans in the UAE.

Also newer cheaper designs http://thorconpower.com/

>>131594994
Actually the bulk of the cost is dealing with all the fucking red tape and legal shit. Power companies have to go through years of bureaucracy and applications and legal petitions and shit to even get approval for building a new nuclear plant, let alone actually breaking ground on one.

In my homestate, Iowa, we have one, single reactor 70's-era nuclear plant. It provides something like a sixth of the grid power for the state. MidAmerican Energy was planning to build a second, modern plant that would have basically paved the way for Iowa to cut some of its coal power and become an energy exporter to neighboring states. It took them five years and something like $80 million in legal fees, surveying fees, design work, etc to just get as far getting *approval* to build a reactor, to say nothing of the $1 billion it would have cost to build it.

Then Fukushima happened and the support for the plant vaporized.

One of the reasons I'm excited about Trump's proposals for US energy infrastructure is that it looks like they'll be gutting a lot of the redundant red tape for nuclear power.

>>131590993
because muh chernobyl

>>131591141
Like others said Thorium. Yes, it needs more research, but potential is there. There's also Bill Gates New Reactor Model Terrapower. He had to go to China to start developing it due to regulations here. Hopefully that changes now.