Re:Germany Is Burning Too Much Coal
by lispm on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @02:24PM
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> technologically its is quite feasible to use these resources in the next 1-2 generations.
These generations are far away and spent fuel piles up. Many countries have huge amounts of spent fuel near reactors. See Fukushima -> lots of spent fuel in pools in reactor buildings. This caused lots of problems in combination of the poor design (pool high in the building), failing backup electricity and failing outside electricity delivery (-> failing cooling of the pools).
> If nuclear energy development would not be stopped and opposed on every step both in development and deployment these things would have been solved long ago.
That's why nuclear thrives in China. Nuclear depends on and supports top-down authoritarian government and decision making. I'm happy that we have stopped this early.
> Every reasonable large country in Europe has enough space for these things, if you use real rather then fantasy risk assessment.
The faulty steel in the not yet running and extremely expensive French EPR is real and not a fantasy.
These generations are far away and spent fuel piles up. Many countries have huge amounts of spent fuel near reactors. See Fukushima -> lots of spent fuel in pools in reactor buildings. This caused lots of problems in combination of the poor design (pool high in the building), failing backup electricity and failing outside electricity delivery (-> failing cooling of the pools).
> If nuclear energy development would not be stopped and opposed on every step both in development and deployment these things would have been solved long ago.
That's why nuclear thrives in China. Nuclear depends on and supports top-down authoritarian government and decision making. I'm happy that we have stopped this early.
> Every reasonable large country in Europe has enough space for these things, if you use real rather then fantasy risk assessment.
The faulty steel in the not yet running and extremely expensive French EPR is real and not a fantasy.
http://www.french-nuclear-safety.fr/Information/News-release...