James Lovelock: Why are we so afraid of nuclear power?

T. A. Gardner said:
Actually, the risks with the waste are pretty minimal. Nuclear waste won't go critical. It gives off almost entirely alpha and beta radiation that is easily manageable. The heat generated by decay can be mitigated by sealing the rods in a cask with oxygen free water. That water also acts as a shield against the small amount of gamma radiation given off. The casks are damn near indestructible.
A plant that is decommissioned only needs being defuled and that fuel put in casks and stored somewhere like Yucca Mountain. The rest of the plant can sit unattended forever if that's how we want to play it. The only two long-term isotopes that would be present for the most part are Fe 60 and Ni 59. Iron (steel) and Nickel (Inconel) make up a big portion of the "stuff" in a reactor outside the fuel and control rods. Those two isotopes are fairly rare so they really aren't a major consideration here.

Yucca Mountain would not be an "unmanned" plant. It would be a storage facility that held spent fuel--eg., fuel rods that no longer can go critical. That is, the fuel there isn't capable of undergoing a nuclear reaction. It is simply various isotopes, many of which are unstable (eg., radioactive) and as they decay slowly emit alpha and beta particle radiation along with a small amount of gamma.
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He just has no clue to how ignorant he is, anybody with any knowledge just laughs at fools like him. Sadly though he is no different to many others especially in the Left.
 
T. A. Gardner said:
Not for me, I was in naval nuclear power for years. I had to study the accidents and incident reports as part of my training. While I focused on industrial engineering in college, I did take several courses in nuclear engineering because I figured I already had the background.
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He has a closed mind which is totally impervious to reason or rational discussion on the subject. That's why I decided it was a waste of time.
 
T. A. Gardner said:
Not for me, I was in naval nuclear power for years. I had to study the accidents and incident reports as part of my training. While I focused on industrial engineering in college, I did take several courses in nuclear engineering because I figured I already had the background.
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Yes I know you've said that a few times.
 
T. A. Gardner said:
It's absolutely a viable option. It's only your near complete ignorance of things nuclear and how they work that keeps you and most people from accepting that.
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the green energy money just agreed to by Manchin?
Do you think it would be better spent on extending life of nuke plants or buying windmills? :palm:
 
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He had a pretty good sense of humour as well.

Richard Branson: James I’m starting a new airline, have I your permission to call it ‘Gaia Airlines’

James Lovelock: Yes, if I have your permission to open a brothel and call it ‘Fly Virgin’
 
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Viewed from Lovelock's Gaia theory perspective, I see nature's creation of "man" as a solution to restore the Carbon (sequestered by Life) to the atmosphere in a nondestructive way (as opposed to volcanoes, for example).
 
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And there is the risk of transporting the waste for thousands of miles thru ordinary towns and cities.
 
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