Huffpost Journalist: Nuclear waste not as big an issue as it's made to be, can even fit a warehouse

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6 күн бұрын

Headstart: Karen Davila talks to Huffpost journalist Alexander Kaufman as he travels Europe and Asia to report extensively on the resurgence of nuclear power.
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@EckonOmyst-jv1ro 22 сағат бұрын

Reactors, which rely on technologies developed over 40 years ago. They are expensive to build and even more so to maintain across their lifecycle. Costs do not just concern the initial construction, but also the ongoing price of fuels, operational costs, and engineering fees. And then there’s the problem of the nuclear waste. Nuclear energy ‘does not reduce the price of electricity’ Nuclear power plants can be attractive for their owners but not necessarily for consumers as they hardly ever determine the price of electricity on the energy exchange. If you replace the capacity of a nuclear power plant for example by the capacity of a coal power plant, the price will not change because it is still the natural gas power plant being the most expensive one and deciding about the price. This is a question of who gains and who pays. When somebody says that the nuclear power plant is cheap, it is for the owner but not necessarily for the consumer.

@AndersGetherSoerensen 4 күн бұрын

Why build A power plants that are expensive and with waste problems? Waste that must be stored for many thousands of years. The Philippines has so much geothermal heat that it is free energy and requires little security and maintenance. Look at Iceland which has similar geosubsoil to the Philippines. They have free heating of houses as well as hot water and electricity. Why is the Philippines not looking at the long term solution?

@bananananananananahanah 3 күн бұрын

Electricity is not free in Iceland

@AndersGetherSoerensen 3 күн бұрын

@@bananananananananahanah Maybe not; but you schud try to pay when it is olie made.

@EckonOmyst-jv1ro 22 сағат бұрын

@AndersGetherSoerensen, you are correct.

@gabrielsebastian8184 Күн бұрын

Even Bill Gates wants to go nuclear.

@EckonOmyst-jv1ro 22 сағат бұрын

Simply because there is money in it. Bill Gates being a businessman not just a Philantrophist, knows that there is big profit. Nuclear power plants can be attractive for their owners but not necessarily for consumers as they hardly ever determine the price of electricity on the energy exchange. If you replace the capacity of a nuclear power plant for example by the capacity of a coal power plant, the price will not change because it is still the natural gas power plant being the most expensive one and deciding about the price. This is a question of who gains and who pays. When somebody says that the nuclear power plant is cheap, it is for the owner but not necessarily for the consumer.

@anonobot3333 4 күн бұрын

Nuclear waste is so easy to bury it.😅 this guy is nerdy. But really from an every man’s view you just have to dig a deep enough hole.

@EckonOmyst-jv1ro 22 сағат бұрын

You sounded ignorant. The operator of Japan's destroyed Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant demonstrated Tuesday how a remote-controlled robot would retrieve tiny bits of melted fuel debris from one of three damaged reactors later this year for the first time since the 2011 meltdown. Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings plans to deploy a “telesco-style” extendable pipe robot into Fukushima Daiichi No. 2 reactor to test the removal of debris from its primary containment vessel by October. That work is more than two years behind schedule. The removal of melted fuel was supposed to begin in late 2021 but has been plagued with delays, underscoring the difficulty of recovering from the magnitude 9.0 quake and tsunami in 2011. During the demonstration at the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries' shipyard in Kobe, western Japan, where the robot has been developed, a device equipped with tongs slowly descended from the telescopic pipe to a heap of gravel and picked up a granule. TEPCO plans to remove less than 3 grams (0.1 ounce) of debris in the test at the Fukushima plant. The Fukushima nuclear disaster is a very old story it happened on 2011 but still the nuclear waste is still deadly. By saying just dig deeper, you proved that you are uneducated. Better educate yourself more before babbling things you know nothing of. Shame on you.