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Originally Posted by Catfish
^ "closed", you mean like near the coast of Novaja Semlja 
And you cannot keep it enclosed, unless you build a big container like in Chernobyl, and stuff it with the toxic waste that cannot be recycled. Any metal that was exposed to radiation, from cooling pipes to cranes, to all kind of equipment, will keep radiating for a some hundred-thousand years.
We do not hear much about it, but Fukushima has become a real problem, they see no way of being able containing the stuff; the radiation is rising and they do not find an explanation. And Chernobyl will be there for millenia to come.. not to speak about all those atmospheric nuclear tests. |
Those reactors are all based on achient nuclear technology.
I reserve my faith on newer, more compact, modular reactors running at atmospheric pressure.
Unless an electric car runs on nuclear/solar/wind generated electricity it can hardly be called clean.
And I am sick of nuclear not being part of the "green" movement.
Do people know the process involved in building windmills not to speak of solarpanels? Sure, the EROI may be good and they dont produce CO2 once they are up and running, but they have a significant environmental impact in their production.