XShipRider said:
I'm happy you knew I was only ribbing you. Too many at debatepolitics.com
Would have taken it as some sort of personal attack, coming unglued then
counterattacking.
Thanks.
I agree with you, some people seem to have no sense of humor, or else think the worst of some comment when they see it.
XShipRider said:
I'm not for building more plants. I would have nothing against more plants
If we could just find a way to either a) safely dispose of the waste, or b)
Safely re-use the waste.
Here's hoping science can come up with something besides burial.
I have the same hope, and I still don't like the underground idea, but IMO it is important that we start using cleaner energy generating processes soon.
Wind, water, solar, etc. All of these are quite nice, but are not developed enough to take over from coal and oil (as far as I know).
Nuclear has had a longer development period, and new nuclear plants can be designed to lessen (but not eliminate) the amount of waste generated. They can also be designed to withstand a meltdown, thus preventing a repeat of the Chernobyl disaster.
This is one of the reasons I say we should replace our old nuclear plants with new ones....safety.
They can be designed to have more prevention against natural and unnatural (terrorist) damage.
Personally, I would feel safer living next to a new nuclear plant than an older one.
Now, about the waste disposal. Underground seems the best idea at the moment.
Some places have it stored above ground, and think what would happen if a terrorist crashed a plane into one of those sites (Maybe they are protected against that, but I saw a picture of one such site and it looked like big tanks just sitting in a enclosure.).
I'm not fully aware of all the possible problems that could be caused by underground storage, and I'm sure that if I go searching on the internet I'll find some which are conspiracy theories.
If any who are against building new plants want, feel free to post such information for our enjoyment.
I'm not sure what other ideas are out there for waste disposal, maybe there are none.