LWR are scaled up nuclear submarine reactors, and although they work well at small scales, they are the cause of pretty much every western nuclear accident ever.
Once again, as I said, Democrats listened to hippies and mothballed the IFR, so we'll have to wait until around 2040 for the private sector to get their shit together and be able to build something you could actually claim is "meltdown proof".
If you'd actually ever worked in a nuclear plant you'd know that
I've worked in nuclear, coal, natural gas, and solar. Solar fields are a money sink where you're constantly replacing panels and batteries. They contribute a ton of waste to the environment and are only profitable due to tax breaks. Coal is begin phased out all over the states and suffers from similar problems as nuclear. Most deaths related to coal come from actually mining it. We have a good system for keeping the pollution from burning coal out of the air now and sell the limestone we use to filter it for other uses. Main issue right now is the fact that we store coal ash in ponds but the recent spill in North Carolina brought public attention to that issue finally and everyone has been working over time to ensure it isn't a problem in the future. In addition, we're burning bottom of the barrel coal because we sell all the good shit to China which is why I think it's mainly begin phased out. Natural Gas isn't too bad and a lot of old coal plants are begin converted over to burn it but again it's mainly profitable to run due to tax breaks and fraking, which I personally think is beyond retarded because it ruins the ground water and is mainly only allowed in places where the local Government puts profits ahead of their people.
Nuclear is the best for producing clean energy in my opinion. We make use of the waste and that waste is actually accounted for because the regulations are so tight. Security in those plants is stricter than anywhere else. If you so much as drop a nut or bolt you'll spend the better part of a week looking for it until it's found. All paper work is done is triplicate at every level. The plants are routinely inspected and major fines are issued for minor infractions like a door not begin properly greased. In fact it's well know that if someone wants to come up with a quick $1,000 they just send an inspector over to our plant to fine us for some bullshit like a break room table not begin level. I'm serious, they're that strict. In addiction the fail safes in place have back ups for the back ups with more backups for those backups. This is all in plants built in the 70s that have been retrofitted with obsolete reactor designs. If we were allowed to build brand new plants we could make them even safe.
We wouldn't have an energy crisis if not for hippies, liberals, wannabe teenage revolutionaries and soccer moms that don't understand anything and live in constant fear. We'd have so much power we'd have to give it away (or sell it to other countries) and it would produce less pollution than all other alternatives including the so-called green ones. The only reason this is not done is due to the fact that it would put a lot of people out of business and profits would go down for the oil/coal/solar/gas companies after the plants were up and running for a few years.
Keep living in your pretend world where you holy crusade against nuclear is righteous. You think you're going to leave the world as a better place for those that come after you but all you're doing is setting them up for slavery and hardship. All because you're afraid of something you don't understand. Typical sheep behavior. I feel sorry for you and anyone that has to listen to your uneducated opinions.
They also produce a shitload of waste. None of it needs to be produced, in fact most waste we already have can be "burned" to something with a half-life of a human timescales, with the right reactor design. That's not to say it will be, though, because like with Th-232 fuel cycles people will always go the cheapest route, and using the waste is probably not cheaper.
Ultimately the waste, while it is a larger amount than produced by modern breeder reactors, is not that big of a deal though in the grand scheme of things. It just kinda sits there, and burying it for tens of thousands of years is probably counter productive if you consider it as a potential fuel source.
This.
I want my home nuclear reactor soon.
It also doesn't make big news because they desperately don't want the unwashed masses to get any funny ideas and the NRC likes to keep things hush-hush and down-low.
They're worse than the FCC too by the way, Start leaking radiation and they WILL find you and they WILL stop you. Actually maybe that's why you never hear about it. The ones that don't cooperate just get killed and erased.
Thank you.
Their position on nuclear energy is a major reason I didn't vote for my country's green party. I agree with them about most things, but their position on nuclear energy is ridiculous. Being against it is just too hip not to do, I suppose, even if it's the best solution for the problem they want to solve.
I ended up picking a party that's at least willing to wholeheartedly support thorium and fusion reactors. The most positive any of the electable parties get is "maybe don't close every single current nuclear reactor".
Chemtrails are nonsense, however it's standard practice to jettison battery acid mixed with baking soda randomly during flights.
You'll find it detailed in ground crew mechanic manuals as part of common functions.
The particularly hilarious part is how the damn faggot never acknowledged the ~171000 killed by the Banqiao dam collapse, even though dams killing more than nuclear was the issue that started his retarded tirade.
Those aren't hazmat suits retard. You literally fell for some random Jap shitposter
Also excuse the double post, but if you really want to know what they're wearing, its to protect them from pesticides in the plants. Hazmat suits don't call for wearing surgical masks you absolute fucking idiot