Re:Germany is closing half of its reactors before the end of...
by ben_w on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @03:45PM
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Fear doesn’t work that way.
I was forbidden from including a smoke detector in a school show-and-tell (UK, circa 1993) because of the radiation symbol, even though there was a detector just like it on the ceiling of the same classroom.
Re:Germany is closing half of its reactors before the end of...
by cesarb on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @06:37PM
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> Being target for nuclear bombs isn't related to nuclear power in the slightest.
There's a reason nuclear power plant technology is strictly controlled as "dual use": the same technology used for power production can also be used to produce the material for a nuclear bomb. So you can't say they're completely unrelated.
Re:Germany is closing half of its reactors before the end of...
by hcurtiss on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @08:06PM
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Nuclear waste from commercial reactors in the US is not fissile. Reprocessing would change that (producing plutonium), but that's why we don't have fast breeders in the US (personally, I favor changing that). I'm aware of no enrichment facilities co-located with nuclear power plants, certainly not in the US.
Re:Germany is closing half of its reactors before the end of...
by smotah on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @07:58PM
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It's a bit more nuanced than that as there's just a subset of all possible nuclear power plant designs that needs the same enrichment facility than for military (bomb making) usage.
The fallout sucked, but even that was a minor hiccup compared to the destruction pollution is bringing with it...