The most sustainable way to do nuclear power is to close the fuel cycle by recycling spent fuel. Nearly all long lived radio isotopes - uranium,...
david666, Spent nuclear fuel must be kept in tanks with circulating water for some period (I think something like 2-3 years) after being...
And a tsunami that would obliterate every city, town, village and sign of human habitation around entire Pacific Rim. In such an apocalyptic...
Coal fired power stations are responsible for hundreds of theousands of premature deaths and heart attacks every year world wide due to air...
Err.... not quite. Solar and wind are relatively safe. Nat gas and hydroelectric are not. If we could ever get the full statistics, I'm certain...
[/b] A lot more than you, it would seem. [/b] The explosions were not in the reactors or the reactor containment. They were hydrogen...
Estimate of tsunami height at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant revised upward to 14 ms...
fanews, No reactors "melted". Stop talking crap.
What piezoe said. When the dust settles, one of the things that will probably come out will be some failures of regulation in Japan. Apparently...
"Woodsmoke in the urban environment is a major source of aggravation and ill health for many people, especially those with allergy or chemical...
The only thing you have got right is that people have a right to the truth. The rest of it is scare mongering garbage. Mindless panic is seldom...
A 1 GW solar power plant capable of baseload operation (by the use of molten salt storage) in an agreeable climate such as Spain would cover...
Don't forget the candles, because that's what you would be using when the sun's not shining. Solar will have it's uses, but like other...
Not as yet and quite possibly not at all.
bearice, Arne't you the idiot that was telling us not so long ago on another thread that a full on nuclear war would not be so bad and the...
[img] False Radiation Rumors Run Rampant "There is no doubt that what is happening at the Fukushima Nuclear plant in Japan is alarming....
As has been pointed out in the most authoritative studies of the Chernobyl disaster one of the worst heath effects has been anxiety, fear and...
The fact that it is technically different is exactly what is relevant. Running around like a headless chicken and screaming "radiation" tells us...
The Ram, "Although radiation escaping from a nuclear power plant catastrophe can increase the risk for many cancers and other health problems,...
Don't be silly.
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