Nuclear Power Station

[bosaap10]

acctualy nuclair power is very intresting and clean, it doesnt produce CO2 and is as powerfull as 199 windmills, its also alot cheaper! also there's enough uranium left. its just, once you fuck up, you fuck up bad

[HedgehogStudios1]

You people are paranoid.

[joshua12345a]

I LOVE LIVING IN NEW ZELAND WERE WE HAVE CLEAN AIR AND LOVELY PLACES AND BECUSE WE ARE NUCLEAR POWERD WE ARE VERY GOOD FARMING COUNTRY

[fruitylilmangoITSRIO]

Thanks. Very simple and straight to the point.

[mookie756]

Apologies. The primary flows "across" the enriched uranium pellets to absorb the heat they produce from fission. I had forgotten that referring to the fuel as its true form (Uranium-235) was de-classified some time ago.

[GummyBrains]

did he say nuclear fishing. LOL

[DreamFlightPro]

Three best ways of Electricity.....Wind Power, Solar power and turbine powered by water Hover Dam an example. THUMBS up for these 3 ways of clean safe power!

[HaGGe92]

@DreamFlightPro Wind power and solar power are too powerless. If you want to produce the power by wind/solar power that we need for everyday living, we have to build way more those powerplants. And it costs a LOT! And don't you even say that hydropower is good choice, it ruins its vicinity by flooding.

And do you know that solar power is also nuclear energy. The Sun is one hell of a big nuclear power plant, which kills hundreds of people each year by radiating.

[hedgefingerpobs]

and then it blows the fuck up

[tnguyen318]

Have you ever thought how abundant electricity is?? I mean its used everywhere and people are using it like crazy!!

[wineverytime1]

TRUMP 2012

[heartlessvietboy]

Where does depleted (spent/burnt) Uranium Pellets go? If Uranium is highly radioactive, wouldn't anything that comes in contact or close to it also be radioactive?? Like water???

[exojjl]

@heartlessvietboy yup. it's everywhere. The air you breathe. The water you drink. The food you eat. The electronic devices we use.

[mookie756]

@heartlessvietboy That is correct. The water in the primary loop (the loop which flows thru across the fuel plates in the reactor vessel) is irradiated by the fuel. That's why it is a completely closed loop. All the piping which contains this highly pressurized water is contained entirely within the reactor compartment, to which access is forbidden (and locked out) during power operations. That is, whenever the reactor is actually producing heat output through fission of its fuel.

[heartlessvietboy]

Is it flowing through or from? Is it in or into? Fuel is not a specific word. It's Uranium Pellets. We need to re-word everything to make things clear.

[mookie756]

@heartlessvietboy Apologies. The primary flows "across" the enriched uranium pellets to absorb the heat they produce from fission. I had forgotten that referring to the fuel as its true form (Uranium-235) was de-classified some time ago.

[heartlessvietboy]

We need to do away with any type of construction that causes damage to the environment.

[nazirdjon]

boring. might have scanned a textbook page and uploaded. would do the same good or bad

[jradetzky]

and then earthquake + tsunami strikes and the shit gets out

[marshalljimduncan]

The China syndrome...watch it.

[jamcalgary]

which software u used to make this thanks

[AmAxOReload]

Yeah, radioactiive waste is an issue, but we also shouldn't forget the Homer Simpson factor.

[MindCrazedBanjo]

@AmAxOReload Trust you to mention Homer Simpson factor, now look......

[MIKEalTV]

sweet simple explanation. :) the center loop that creates the steam i thought would there would only be two loop. seems pretty safe. i bet the preventive maintenance schedule is intense.

[RealBulldust]

...that really looks harmless, safe and clean...and simple....but somewhere in reactor building there is Homer Simpson, the embodiment of human error... and nothing can stop him!!!

[sumanariucable]

@RealBulldust  if Homer isn't stupid enough to stop the security measures , everything will go well.

[RealBulldust]

@sumanariucable ...if Homer isn't stupid enough to do that, then there is some computers with messy software helping him...and everything will go to hell...while Homer playing Angry Birds

[MarsMoonEuropa]

@RealBulldust Yes there is. It's called a computer.

[RealBulldust]

@MarsMoonEuropa...0_o... do u mean that homers can't use computers?

[MarsMoonEuropa]

@RealBulldust Homers won't have any control over the computer.

Nuclear Power Plants are designed with many safety features so it'll shut down if Homer decides to pull a fast one on it :P

[MarsMoonEuropa]

@RealBulldust These computers cannot be controlled by any one person.

[Rayden440]

Does anyone know how they get rid of the waste that is not recycled?

[kasundrapraksh07]

hbjhj

[ultrapetey]

I hate the current reliance on oil/gas/coal...they should be saved for going fast in cars and on motorbikes :P

[captinseperoth]

we haven't built far safer,cleaner,and more efficient power plants due the environmentalist!

hey did you know that if  we were to allow such developments in tech, rather the stangent we have today....

also ford,and the USA wanted to produce all atomic powered cars in the 40s...yet tech was lacking....

imagine a clean usa with no oil,and no oil spils!

[brianng999]

@captinseperoth Yea...poor americans...the french have better nuclear plants!

[dgaridan]

Japan 53 nuclear power plant, China 11 nuclear power plant, South Korea 20 nuclear power plant now they became an elite country. Philippines 1 nuclear power plant but it was opposed by many then they became third world country. Learn from mistakes.

[Adilshit]

is this environmental friendly energy? or there is waste...

[ejimmy1995]

@Adilshit it produces no Co2

[geekforlifevandc]

they should just go no nasa and send all nucleur waste to space expensive yes do i care no little by little we can have all the waste removed

[Shatteredworld]

@geekforlifevandc except that the United Nations signed a treaty last century which prohibits the presence of nuclear material in space. Besides, whats the use of sending usable material in the space? Nuclear waste is still usable, it's just branded "waste" because America uses an Open Cycle. If we reprocessed it, we get 60% more power extraction, AND we cut the half life down from million to a short 50 -100 years. Blame Ex-president Carter for current lack of economic reprocessing technology.

[TheoreticChaos]

I'm not necessarily one of those hippies who hates nuclear power. It is pretty clean and safe, but all that waste has to go somewhere, and what you bury will eventually make its way out to the surface. I don't see why we don't move to solar energy. It's 100% clean and safe, and although it costs a lot at first, it saves the owners tons of money in the end. I feel power plants should begin using solar power, and the government should provide some subsidies to help this all start.

[dermotk5]

you're right we can't bury the waste

we should shoot it to the sun!

[Shatteredworld]

@TheoreticChaos the cost is TREMENDOUS and the energy output, space taken for Solar collection fields, and the current level of solar technology make it all to impossible. Not to mention the solar panels themselves are NOT eco-friendly, in fact the panels are toxic to the environment so god forbid they break. and require a hefty repair fee.

[742ouq]

@Shatteredworld ..the reason that the US does not recycle fuel is because the reprocessed fuel is usable only in what is called a fast breeder reactor. We only use reactors which utilize thermal neutrons. This makes the fission chain reaction inherently stable. When temperature rises it inhibits the production of thermal neutrons, thus slowing the chain reaction. In fast breeders, the higher the temperature the faster the reaction. It is inherently UNstable. It is all about acceptable risk.

[rbolo29]

HELL FIRE keeps nuclear power plants and the Earth's core running hot through nuclear fission.

[agnlxx]

This is a good explanation of how this works. Very easy to understand.

[knjdn]

In my opinion nuclear power, isnt at all a solution for global warming because you need alot of machines to mine the uranium, and to refine it, which means more co2 emitted.

Uranium recources will only last to 2080 if it is going on like today. And if we double the number of nuclear powerplant automatically the resources will last half that much=2050 is the deadline.

Why not be smart and start with green power from right now??

[dermotk5]

you're right (in some ways).

nuclear power will cause more co2 from mining and even building the power stations.

i don't know much about resources running out though so i'll have to go with you on that one. however, the co2 doesn't really matter. mars' atmosphere is 90% co2 or something and its freezing. its not co2 we should be careful with, its water,steam and clouds. water vapor is the #1 greenhouse gas and power stations produce lots of water. we're all screwed.

[Shatteredworld]

@knjdn Then why mine it? America has a VAST quantity of perfectly usable nuclear waste. Only called "waste" because America doesn't have a feasible reprocessing system and uses the "Open Cycle" which is mine, refine, use, store. If we had a proper reprocessing system we could reuse the "waste" get more power, and extend our current uranium resource lifetime. We could do this until green power is ready to step up and take over for Fossil fuels, cause green power is nowhere near rdy to take over.

[JonThm]

Nuclear fission from U pollutes and kills! Nuclear fusion from water is clean and liberates more power. See my blog.

[mrkanker1]

no it doesnt

[JonThm]

@mrkanker1 True, the Earth's core does mostly clean nuclear fusion, from water. So can we!

[casanovick]

It definitely doesn't.

[JonThm]

@casanovick Nuclear power is fatal

[gangsallhere]

nuclear power is the cleanest power out there

nuclear power gives off no emissions

[Sasuke05443]

The uranium in power plants is only enriched to a maximum of 4% , weapons grade uranium (required for your "sitting bombs") needs to be enriched to about 90%. So nuclear power plants are not sitting bombs.

[JonThm]

Nuclear power is toxic death

[Sasuke05443]

Get get a higher radiation level from your CRT TV then you do from living on the property line of a nuclear power plant. Better throw your TV out.

[JonThm]

Don't you own a plasma yet? And you sit out of harms way. GW kills continentally.

[gangsallhere]

how?

[mrkanker1]

nuclear power is completely clean,exept for mineing it

[JonThm]

@mrkanker1 and processing it, transporting it adn converting it into poeer. And the waste is toxic. Fatal polluting industry.

[TheoreticChaos]

And dumping it into the ground, which will ultimately leak out some day and kill the environment.

[mrkanker1]

uraniam is a natural mineral,it has no waste other than uhm well wtf am i saying D-P-U is left over,that stuff eats through steel in seconds >.> but thats only by-product lol

[g4macdad]

@mrkanker1 LOL

What about mining and enrichment? Storage and waste? Even the containers become HIGHLY irradiated and must be disposed of. Where will they be stored for 1,000's of years safely? The process of mining and enrichment and transport uses MORE fossil fuel than a coal fired electric power facility.

You simply have not done ANY research.

[franznar12]

They have plenty of water for cooling down!!

Why the nuclear plant have a massively meltdown??

[BELL5ROSE]

THANK YOU!

thats all i needed to know for my test ^^

not some hippies opinion. i needed actual fact.

[teleporttours1]

Solar Thermal Costs $4490 Killowatt

Nuclear Costs $4500 Killowatt

Not counting $1billion decomissioning cost of nuclear, legacy cost, and political windfall of supporting nuclear still loses, and all who support nuclear are terrorists/ non patriots of our way of life. Support nuclear if you hate freedom, liberty, and the American way of life!

Support Solar which works round the clock with current technology, and you give us the bargaining chips we need to stop world nuclear proliferation.

[inquisitum]

Please use geothermal instead and kill this stupid and risky nuclear power generation idea off for everyone's good.

[XukTWiiCHz]

to

inquisitum Nuclear power stations are very safe so theres no need to worry

[NationalMan]

Another model of this basic idea can be found in the model steam engine toys made by companies like Wilesco and Jensen. They are neat little engines, some of them have little generators that produce electricity that powers up a small light bulb. They are interesting models...

[arandasbasha]

its similar to the steam power plant the only diffrent thig that it generate the heat in a nuclear reactor

[jamiehasnomercy]

So they do only need nuclear power to keep generating substances for nuclear arms, This is by no means a green tech in my eyes.

[mooood911]

There are better ways of this method

[Entschunder]

what is the cooling tower for then ?

[lio0nheart]

to reduce the temp of water which left the turbine, its important to make sure that mostof the water in the tank is in liquied phase otherwise the pump cant work

[BxHxKx0x]

INTERHIGH

~TTOM

[goredwings1212]

Haha is this from Microsoft Encarta like... 96 or something? Hehe you'd think that we'd be better at animating by the time we came up with nuclear power.

[ogop79]

This looks like something that we should be using. The question is why are we not using this technology?

[abars10]

Because of the incident after the movie "the china syndrome" came out, it scared the crap out of everybody so we havent built a new nuclear power plant since 1979ish.

[hieu1994]

because people are wussies

[magretweiland]

cute

[AlienMyth]

SWEEEEEEEEEET!!!!!!!!1

[yahoovisitor]

It wonderful the way all the requirements of generating energy economically have been demonstrated. I don't think USA or any nuclear power needs to oppose these kinds of projects just being used to generate energy and meet the requirements of lack of energy required to drive industrial units, thus helping the economy of a country to stand up on its feet and not to be a burden on the globe.

[captinseperoth]

@yahoovisitor

public is screwing it's self over due to Hollywood,and it's liberal ideas.