Just burn it...

Using a Fusion Fission Hybrid Reactor to Burn Nuclear Waste

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It's a car not a science experiment! Open the throttle!

It matters not how clean coal can be made to burn. What matters is how much it cost to produce a BTU from it.

The answer currently is that coal is expensive when stacked up against natural gas.

The coal industry can whine all it wants about regulations and whatever, but there is not a power producer out there that cares one bit about their troubles. All they care about is producing power at the lowest cost, and even coal mining that is totally automated cannot compete with Natural Gas.

It's all about the $$$$$$$.

As it should be, until we can agree on a better medium of exchange.

I don't agree that Fukushima was a one in a million occurrence. It's what happens when you build a nuclear plant on a tsunami prone coastline on top of a fault zone and (apparently) place the backup generators below sea level. Not an indictment of Nuclear power itself at all actually but certainly of human and engineering stupidity.

- Peter.

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Don't forget San Onofre and Diablo plant located near fault lines in California. Indian point near Manhattan.

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- With out god, life is everything.
- God is an ever receding pocket of scientific ignorance that's getting smaller and smaller as time moves on..." Neil DeGrasse Tyson
- You can pray for me, I'll think for you.
- When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.

Ya, I thought the Hydrogen was supposed to come from Water. I was shocked when I read about the using Oil.
Apparently they get more Hydrogen cheaper from Oil.

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The San Onofre Facility is right near to the Beach. Yet on the other side of the Highway from it the terrain starts rising. They could have built the Facility a 1/4 Mile inland and had it be at least 200 feet above Sea Level.
An off shore Earth Quake could cause a Tidal Way and swamp it.

If someone attacked the USA do you think the Nuclear Power Plants might be a target that would enhance the attack?
Especially if We had more of them.

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If I am targeting something they would be on my short list. Take out a power source and create a dirty bomb of sorts in one fell swoop.

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2014 C250 21,XXX my new DD ** 2013 GLK 350 18,000 Wife's new DD**

- With out god, life is everything.
- God is an ever receding pocket of scientific ignorance that's getting smaller and smaller as time moves on..." Neil DeGrasse Tyson
- You can pray for me, I'll think for you.
- When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.

I have to agree on this one. I thought the same thing when I first read the report on the accident.

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"The thing is Bob, its not that I'm lazy...its that I just don't care."

In my city our coal plant has been shut down and natural gas generators were built in its back lot to replace it.

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Most people don't know this, but south east Oklahoma has some of the best coal in the world. That is not a rash statement; it is a fact.

The area was, for about 85 years, a solid producer of high grade coal. In some instances it could be plowed up since it was so close to the ground.

Shortly after oil was discovered in the region all the coal mines shut down. Today the area is a large producer of natural gas and despite there still being enormous amounts of coal in the area there are no working mines.

There were no regulations in place during that era, and coal miners were routinely killed off through accidents, but that's not what shut down the mines.

It was economics. Coal could just not compete with gas and oil.

I don't expect this to change anytime soon.

Golly, no gov mandate necessary.

Lets dig a storage facility in the NE and see how well it is received . I am sure it will be well received and welcomed with open arms.

Governor: 6 tanks leaking radioactive waste at Washington nuclear site - CNN.com


just a few leaks to deal with

Suits me.