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Old 05-22-22, 03:22 PM   #8
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Nuclear reactors are not the problem. Breaking nuclear reactors are. Like breaking or non-functioning stuff of any kind is a problem. A week of continental blackout due to insufficient electrical production redundancy would create much more stuff for deaster movies than Chernobyl did, the follow-on effects would be apocalyptical, considering the many many dependencies on electricty that there are, and the many things that woudl break (and would stay broken when power is back) if they get not supplied with power.

Not to mention that there are reactor technologies today that are said to be extremely more secure than that old reactor at Chernobyl was, even when the core "breaks" they are claimed to keep the critical and superhot material inside and isolated. Not to mention reactor concepts that burn no nuclear fuel, but nuclear waste.

Then there are concepts like the Myrrha hybride reactor in Belgium that combines nuclear reactor technology with particle acceleration technology to "transmutate" nuclear waste into less critical material that is less radiating, and needs to be kept isolated for much lesser time. It works since - 7 years.

Lets not be afraid of white sharks in the Grunewaldsee just because there is water in it.


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