Comments on: Why is going nuclear so bad?

By: Jack

Jack — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 13:57:22 +0000

There’s nothing wrong with nuclear itself. It’s that rogue countries that want to build nuclear weapons pass off building nuclear facilities for productivity as an excuse.

By: ben lang

ben lang — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 19:53:18 +0000

The world will end because of nuclear activity. Stop it now…

By: Dale Y the Green Guy

Dale Y the Green Guy — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 18:54:21 +0000

It appears that the ‘status quo’ of nearly every industry, as you call it, keeps a lot of new technology down.

Light bulbs could be made to burn 100 years, but that’s counter productive in a business where a disposable lightbulb advances sales. There used to be research into a gadget called a 100 mile per gallon carburetor, but that wouldn’t be good for the gasoline business. Hi-Def TV was invented in the early 80′s, but sponsors wouldn’t pay more to have commercials broadcast in Hi-Def, so that technology was shunned by the industry. (The only reason we have Hi-Def now is that SONY, the inventor, began INCLUDING Hi-Def comp chips in their standard broadcast cameras in the late 1990′s.)

So I agree with you, and until businesses realize that new and different technology which changes the status quo is good, it will be much of the same old-same old.

Thanks for the comment, I much appreciate it!

By: Brett Legree

Brett Legree — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 23:53:28 +0000

There are other fuel technologies available that make the waste stable for the long term without processing or complicated storage containers (e.g. the pebble bed modular reactor, PBMR, uses an innovative design – co-op funding from the US for this project, out of South Africa, was killed by the Bush Administration – strange, eh?)

The industry itself is often times its own worst enemy by maintaining the status quo and keeping new and innovative technology down.

Notwithstanding that, there are places where we could store the most common types of nuclear waste using current technologies.

How do I know?

I work in nuclear waste management.

(This might make me a bit biased, of course – but if you’re not getting your information from someone who works in that area, you’re not getting the whole story. Wikipedia does not count…)