The Earth is running out of Oil
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HashiraMadara
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"If you recycle the waste, the final waste that is left over decays to harmlessness within a few hundred years, rather than a million years as with standard (unrecycled) nuclear waste. This page explains how this interesting process is possible."
Why did you stop?
Nuclear decays are of the order of millions of years so shortening it to a few hundred years is good.
And it's not like it's thrown into your neighborhood trash can; it's completely isolated so the radioactive particles and rays are completely suppressed.
"We should stop using ships because of the Titanic incident."
HashiraMadara
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* IKR, With so many power plants, ecological foot print and space demands we have all the space in the world to have "isolated wastelands to store substances big enough to power 7 billion people's realities" :|
* Tell me how easy it is to handle nuclear reactions, with tip toe precision for daily living having minimal mistakes...
* And yeah it will be really awesome to have material usable as weapons to be daily transported as country power sources
ingenious
Yeah; and I commented on that answer, like you would expect people to do on a bulletin board.
You didn't need to be this edgy.
- Haha, no. The nuclear waste is not that big relative to the amount of energy it generates; as compared to other energy sources.
- Nuclear reactors are not that dangerous; engineers know what they are doing. Media just spreads hoaxes.
- Not an argument. Guns are misused too, doesn't mean they stop selling it.
HashiraMadara
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• The same was said about coal etc at the start of civilization, i.e. If it's not renewable and it needs waste dump land, stomp treating its limit as infinity because it can easily run shortage: coal/oil was thought to be almost unfinishable at the start of civilization, it brought something that was not calculated(global warming) before they even "faced any shortages of it", and I am sure you know how many bodies die everyday in the name of oil. Therefore many times troublesome non calculated problems might rise to nuclear energy like in coal.
• Coal and Oil Plants explode yearly with horrible damages to oceans etc because they are so common, now nuclear energy is taken with more care because of its low number of facilities. Increase the of those plants to be a daily supplier you will end facing something Much worse that what oil spills etc cause..
• I am sure a rouge country with guns is = in danger with a rouge country having nuclear weapons
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- Haha, no. Nuclear energy will not run short for a thousand years. It's true they thought that oil was plenty, but they were misinformed. Not the same with nuclear energy; we know that it can last. And yeah, people do die because of greed; nothing new.
- We don't need as much nuclear reactors as oil plants, though. Just a fraction of it to meet all the energy requirements. Besides, it requires specialist nuclear engineers to handle those things, so the probablity of a mishap is pretty low.
- Then we just need to restrict and control it better. It's not like someone can come and steal Uranium from the reactors. LOL.
I think you're overrating a bit. A certain percentage of energy generated by 1st world countries come from nuclear power, its not as far far fetched as you think it is. You're taking a very cynical perspective on this, but the pros out way the cons. Of course if a nuclear waste spill were to happen the after effects would be devastating, but they're far and in between. The last two major nuclear power waste leaks were Chernobyl and the 2011 Nuclear power plant leak after a Tsunami. This is compared to the several oil spills that we've had within the past decade.
Regardless, I still believe natural renewable energy sources should be our main focus when switch from fossil fuels and oil.
Uzumaki Menma
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That's why it's important to get a POTUS and a policy that pushes more advanced energy sources now. Imagine when the time comes of the event of this thread, and the USA have already become the front runners of that said resource. It will prove to be the economical output of our future generations :axedance: