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Old 11-13-2018, 01:52 PM   #3684 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by oil pan 4 View Post
Some of the believers on here are legitimately terrified of nuclear power and they don't appear to under stand how it works or the nuclear fuel life cycle.
They think all nuclear is the devil, even gen 4 reactors that can't melt down or blow up are useless for nuclear weapon fuel and don't produce long lived waste isotopes.
Well they do produce one long lived waste, a relatively tiny amount of plutonium 238, which is used on deep space probes.
The space program would want most if not all of it.
If these are so great - why don't we have them? They have to have energy and material inputs, and they can't be perpetual - so, how are they renewable?

Centralized power plants are problematic. We need to go to micro grids, which are much more robust and resilient.
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