• Nobsi
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    -21 year ago

    Do you realise that you can also build windmills… where you would put the Power Plant? On Land? And that would reduce the time and cost of construction?
    You could also fill barren fields with solar panels and use space that not even a solar plant could use, this in turn also gives animals shade and helps biodiversity and bug species.
    And doesnt have a third of its construction cost as running costs forever.
    You can also scale wind turbines in minutes. Look at France how much it costs to have nuclear plants not running.

    In what way can we reuse the nuclear waste?

    • @[email protected]
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      31 year ago

      You do realise how much space windmills would need to produce as much power as a single nuclear plant, right? That is also the reason we try to build them in the water.

      And when did I write anything about nuclear waste? I specifically pointed out that I was talking about deconstruction waste, where cooling towers turbines, and general facilities can be reused, and only the core shielding of the nuclear reactor has to be specially disposed of, versus the wings and foundation of windmills, which we don’t really know what to do with right now, so we kinda just bury them wherever and hope it doesn’t come back to bite us later.

      • Nobsi
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        -11 year ago

        You didn’t. I did. What about nuclear waste? It doesnt go away and if we build so much nuclear we also have so much more waste.
        The blades can be recycled btw. we just dont do it because we dont have capacity for them.
        Which brings me back to the nuclear waste. Oh and Fukushima. Chernobyl. When are we getting rid of those?

        • @[email protected]
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          11 year ago

          The amount of waste produced is extremely small for how much power you get, and is dealt with in exactly the same we we deal with literally all of our garbage: put it under ground and call it a day.