(June 1, 2012 at 5:42 pm)Moros Synackaon Wrote:(June 1, 2012 at 4:50 pm)Welsh cake Wrote: Why the hell we do still arrogantly fool ourselves into thinking we can control nuclear power and play with its waste as if it were putty?Bullshit. We can control nuclear power and even make it "safe".
The thorium reactors that use molten salts are exceptionally safe. Unfortunately, ask yourself, who sells reactors.
You'll find it is GE and they still hawk Gen 1 and Gen 2 PWR's, which are so uneconomical that if you compared the cost of operation and production with the cost of installation and clean up, they NEVER fucking pay for themselves. They're also ridiculously unsafe compared to what we can do now.
However, big money has another way of talking.
Well said. I was involved up at Dounreay with the UK first fast reactor. A new reactor is now planned about 10 miles from where I live, hopefully be involved with that too.
