Re: Nuclear Power

A reply to Dan Brown's discussion on nuclear power how safe it is or isn't and power in general

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[kojsbarv]

Switzerland in Scandinavia?!?

Get you facts sorted if you want any credibility, you are probably talking about Sweden, Switzerland is next to Italy.

[PAPO1990]

@kojsbarv yeh I had a feeling someone would call me out on that. I used to get sweden and Switzerland mixed up and when I'm talking fast (or at least thinking fast) and once I throw throw in any other scandinavian country (like norway) I don't give too much though to it and what comes out is my thinking from 8 years ago. You'd think I'd know better when my favourite car is built in sweden (the Koenigsegg) and I have friends who live in Switzerland

[MrElektrolyt]

dude where do you get your facts?

ONE gau , ONE cost the state about 2- 15 % of its gdp.

You dont know where to put the waste. So hf with this cost.

If it would be so good , why is it only used 15 Prozent of all energie? Its 40 years old. It got its time. But it burned out at 15 Prozent.

Cause its not sheep, its not safe its a stupid old idea.

Get over it!

[PAPO1990]

@MrElektrolyt ok I only understood about half of that due to bad spelling and grammar but; I get my facts mostly from wherever they present themselves to me, and sometimes specific research, I remember it but I collect this knowledge regardless and don't take note of it until I need it like now. the facility I was talking about was very impressive and a truly safe way to store nuclear waste, BUT I never said I supported nuclear power, just that it's not as bad as people think

[sHenk1990]

We have to look at the future: storing nuclear waste does not do this. What would it be like with 100 years of nuclear power, a world full of radioactive waste. Not really nice. We should reduce this to the minimum. I like the idea of a grid, but you still need gas for heating. You can also use the sun to heat water, and store it underground, for the colder winter. But these things have to be made payable, and they aren't yet. They will be due to scale economies, but then again chicken-egg.

[PAPO1990]

@sHenk1990 not everyone uses gas for hot water as you can get electric how water units (as well as solar). anything can be made to be electric (except for a good old fashioned BBQ ;) ) so once you generate you own power gas becomes a non issue, and my point wasn't that Nuclear power is good just that it's not as bad as people think, and the storage facility I was talking about was seriously impressive trust me.

but yeh it's all about money in the long run :(

[sHenk1990]

@PAPO1990 Oh well, here in the Netherlands we mostly use gas..people are dependent on this as their source of heating, so we will still be dependent on energy companies, unless ''anything can be made electric'' then no problem. Nuclear power isn't that bad, of course, else we wouldn't have it. But it is still true that people are influenced by what we see on the news, forgetting that that is not reality, and now Nuclear power is big. But it has to happen, in order to change it, and thats good.

[PAPO1990]

@nickharvey7 I completely forgot about tidal power but even now it is still being developed somewhat and isn't really commercially viable due to it's early stages, and even though the radioactivity will never go away it will very quickly dissipate (not quite the right word but you get what I mean) to a point where there is so little radiation left that it is mostly harmless, heck they inject radioactive iodine into your blood for medical scans

[nickharvey7]

I think it was madness to build these nuclear plants when we could have used tidal power formed by the gravitation pull of the Moon this alone could create most of our energy! Some of this radioactivity has a very short half-life but what people never seem to say is that the activity will never reach zero. So it will never totally go away!