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In reply to the discussion: Another sign that we should move away from nuclear power. Hopefully we listen this time. [View all]MadHound
(34,179 posts)13. Well, perhaps you need to recognize that I was speaking figuratively.
Yes, if we ended nuclear today, we would have to hike our fossil fuel use. But, if we did a crash program of weaning us off of nuclear(and fossil fuels), putting thin film photovoltaic on every roof, methane digesters in every neighborhood, wind were possible, etc. etc., we could get off of nuclear within a couple of years, and fossil fuels within a decade.
Nuclear only fills approximately seventeen to nineteen percent of our power needs, and that is declining. Putting thin film photovoltaics on every roof in the NYC area would take care of that need.
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Another sign that we should move away from nuclear power. Hopefully we listen this time. [View all]
MadHound
Feb 2013
OP
Virtually every single nuclear facility that stores nuclear waste has had problems,
MadHound
Feb 2013
#4
Objectively, to want to end nuclear today means increasing Fossil Fuel use dramatically.
NYC_SKP
Feb 2013
#9
Um, no. I don't think so. Neither example is commercially viable or even on the market.
NYC_SKP
Feb 2013
#49
.... and not one of these sites was ever designed for long-term disposal of waste.
Buzz Clik
Feb 2013
#29
Ask your family member if he/she would rather have the waste safely contained.
Buzz Clik
Feb 2013
#35
Where and when is this 'Fountain of Youth' for nuclear plants and the waste they generate?
Tikki
Feb 2013
#37
My policy is to respond only twice to people who refuse to explain themselves.
Buzz Clik
Feb 2013
#38
You are correct that Hanford is not the norm. Younger plants have yet to experience
rhett o rick
Feb 2013
#24
Time out. Generation of electricity by nuclear energy is a threat to humanity?
Buzz Clik
Feb 2013
#39
You are going to have to come up with a one hundred percent guaranteed way of storing the waste,
MadHound
Feb 2013
#36
Do we have a plan to deal with the reactor structures that are aging and nearing
ThomThom
Feb 2013
#41