Record fundraising by a nuclear fusion start-up

T. A. Gardner said:
Doesn't change anything I've said. Even if they're going ahead with the project, it's still a non-necessity except with unreliable energy sources like wind and solar. It's still grotesquely expensive per KWH stored.
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T. A. Gardner said:
Nuclear is the only cost effective and viable option. Batteries will never get better enough to make them cost effective because you cannot change the laws of physics and chemistry. Batteries follow the periodic table and you cannot change that.
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No batteries- no future. Stand aside, please.
 
T. A. Gardner said:
Yea, sure... Just another Know-nothing, who doesn't know shit about nuclear power, but has read plenty of the environmental Left's bullshit and propaganda on it.
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Sure, we have not had nuke plants melt down. We do not have the incredible costs of bldg nuke plants and the huge costs of decommissioning leaving a valuable bit of real estate useless. We do not have pools full of radiated equipment at every damn plant.
Pro nukers have to lie about it all claiming it is some fanciful super form of energy production.
 
Nordberg said:
Sure, we have not had nuke plants melt down. We do not have the incredible costs of bldg nuke plants and the huge costs of decommissioning leaving a valuable bit of real estate useless. We do not have pools full of radiated equipment at every damn plant.
Pro nukers have to lie about it all claiming it is some fanciful super form of energy production.
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They're investors. They don't think beyond pay-day.
 
moon said:
Just store the rejects in your garage, would you .
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Wrong. They need to be stored in a cask with distilled, air-free, water for coolant for the low level of residual alpha and beta radiation they emit. If I was getting paid to store them, they could use my swimming pool...
 
Nordberg said:
Sure, we have not had nuke plants melt down. We do not have the incredible costs of bldg nuke plants and the huge costs of decommissioning leaving a valuable bit of real estate useless. We do not have pools full of radiated equipment at every damn plant.
Pro nukers have to lie about it all claiming it is some fanciful super form of energy production.
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Actually everything you're saying is bullshit. The US has had one commercial meltdown of a plant, that was Three Mile Island. Nobody died, nobody got cancer, and the whole thing has been cleaned up. It cost less to do so than the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill and was less dangerous to the environment.
As for land, solar and wind, they require blading under vast tracks of land to build those humongous power farms, far more than the tiny footprint a nuclear plant takes up.

The spent fuel is not a major danger either. It is a low-level alpha and beta emitter that can be safely stored in casks, or reprocessed. The amount of spent fuel in terms of volume is smaller than the vast number of wind turbine blades and unrecyclable solar panels take up, even now.
 
T. A. Gardner said:
Actually everything you're saying is bullshit. The US has had one commercial meltdown of a plant, that was Three Mile Island. Nobody died, nobody got cancer, and the whole thing has been cleaned up. It cost less to do so than the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill and was less dangerous to the environment.
As for land, solar and wind, they require blading under vast tracks of land to build those humongous power farms, far more than the tiny footprint a nuclear plant takes up.

The spent fuel is not a major danger either. It is a low-level alpha and beta emitter that can be safely stored in casks, or reprocessed. The amount of spent fuel in terms of volume is smaller than the vast number of wind turbine blades and unrecyclable solar panels take up, even now.
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Are you familiar with the Fermi plant? How about the Davis Besse plant.
The GAO tracked more than 150 incidents from 2001 -6 that resulted in deaths or over 50K in damage.
The Bese. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davis–Besse_Nuclear_Power_Station
So why are you lying? Do you work for a nuke plant?
 
America's Nuclear Legacy- More than 6,000 Nuclear Dumps...and Counting

Atomic garbage has piled-up more than 70-years high, beginning with the first atom bomb testing in the American Southwest, and the nuclear industry has failed to safely “take the trash out.”

https://www.fairewinds.org/nuclear-energy-education/marco-interview


After $40 Billion, America’s Biggest Nuclear Dump Is Still Leaking

It’s cost $40 billion so far to clean up America’s biggest nuclear waste site—half the size of Rhode Island—and it’s going to take another 40 years and $100 billion to finish the job.

https://whowhatwhy.org/science/envi...ericas-biggest-nuclear-dump-is-still-leaking/


etc., etc., etc., etc................................
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Nukeheads are fucking up our world . You're also shit-scared of the compensation you're going to have to pay.
 
France's EDF takes more nuclear reactors offline after faults found

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French power giant EDF (EDF.PA) said on Wednesday it had found faults on pipes in a safety system at its Civaux nuclear power station, and it would shut down another plant because it used the same kind of reactors.

The setback comes as France plans a major nuclear power station building program, diverging from neighbour Germany which retreated from nuclear power after the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan in 2011.

.. the pandemic has delayed maintenance work on some nuclear reactors.

https://www.reuters.com/markets/eur...zVeNm2IKJgSHqdLcYqVDPX-JxL4Hd8OqR6PKy0a7pbA-c
 
Belgium to part ways with nuclear plants

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On Thursday, Belgium’s seven-party coalition hammered out an agreement on nuclear power. The deal, which was agreed just a week before the end-of-2021 deadline, will see all the country’s nuclear power plants close by 2025. Lawmakers made the accord after talks that went on throughout the night.

https://www.rt.com/news/544223-belgium-government-nuclear-power/
 
American Man said:
The was a good article in the recent issue of Ideas And Discoveries about experimental fusion reactors. Unfortunately, Big Oil and their Republican puppets will find a way to oppose it, probably by misrepresenting scientific facts and by fear-mongering about taxes (the usual tactics).
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Yet here you are, a Democrat, bringing politics into a scientific discussion.

And of course the opposite is true, that libs/ Democrats will oppose this, as aptly demonstrated by your comrade:
moon said:
Your optimism is invariably bad news for the planet.
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T. A. Gardner said:
What's bad news for the planet is solar and wind...

Here in Phoenix the tards on the environmental Left are suggesting that to keep the urban heat island the city creates down to a minimum we plant more trees and paint more roofs white even as they push PV solar rooftop installations that are BLACK! Nothing like a solar array that's black absorbing energy and producing heat that works intermittently because shade from trees keeps passing over it...
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The solution is to cover roofs with the panels, not cover farm land. Also arrays placed over asphalt highways.
 
Jim Eagle said:
The solution is to cover roofs with the panels, not cover farm land. Also arrays placed over asphalt highways.
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The solution is to use nuclear and natural gas. Solar panels on homes are nearly worthless on a commercial scale of generation. The average home solar array produces between 3 and 5 kw at most, often less. Let's just say 4 KW over a typical day. The average sized natural gas power plant is about 900 MW. That means you need about 225,000 home solar arrays to replace that power plant.

But wait! You can't you still need the natural gas plant because half the time the sun doesn't shine! Therefore, you are just duplicating effort while adding immense complexity to the grid at enormous cost. If the average home solar array cost say, $40,000 to install (parts and labor), that's $9 billion dollars. The natural gas power plant would run about 10% of that cost and be available 24/7 versus not producing half the time.

Solar is absolutely stupid, and there's no way around that.
 
A great many households get paid for putting their excess domestic generation back into the grid. It's a selling point. The post above is mendacious mischief, worthy of the Brit maggot.

Belgians are to be congratulated for dumping nuclear- before nuclear dumps on them
 
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