Nuclear Power

[Winchester]

[quote name='Laudate_Dominum' date='12 December 2009 - 05:14 PM' timestamp='1260656082' post='2019309']
Billy Bass disagrees.
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Billy Bass
Can kiss my [mod]extempers:silence, Infidel![/mod]

[ardillacid]

[quote name='Archaeology cat' date='13 December 2009 - 06:30 AM' timestamp='1260703847' post='2019617']
Yeah, provided there's a viable option for storing the waste (or, better yet, converting it somehow), I'm all for it. I do not think people should be like the Malon and dump antimatter waste in other territories.
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There is

[elizabeth09]

but I think that the Nuclear Power can use less in the air

[ThePenciledOne]

Sure let's give the CEOs of the power companies the power of a warhead. They were pretty dependable right? Even during the bailout right? Oh wait.....

[Nihil Obstat]

[quote name='ThePenciledOne' date='17 December 2009 - 08:40 PM' timestamp='1261104042' post='2022550']
Sure let's give the CEOs of the power companies the power of a warhead. They were pretty dependable right? Even during the bailout right? Oh wait.....
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What kind of anarchist are you?

[ThePenciledOne]

[quote name='Nihil Obstat' date='17 December 2009 - 11:07 PM' timestamp='1261105622' post='2022567']
What kind of anarchist are you?
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What is that supposed to mean.

[Nihil Obstat]

[quote name='ThePenciledOne' date='17 December 2009 - 09:15 PM' timestamp='1261106139' post='2022577']
What is that supposed to mean.
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Better the CEOs have the power than the big bad government, eh?

[ThePenciledOne]

[quote name='Nihil Obstat' date='18 December 2009 - 01:01 AM' timestamp='1261112479' post='2022646']
Better the CEOs have the power than the big bad government, eh?
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Sure, if that's what you say. I mean, CEOs just sit on everythinganyway including their salaries. But hey I am just a peon in all ofthis, what do I know?

And if the CEOs really did have the power rather than the government, they would be gone sooner than you could say Frannie May Freddie Mac.

[Christie_M]

I'm actually more for nuclear power then bio fuels., mostly because i think that the stuff used for bio fuel should be eaten
But i'm against it because of the waste problem. after all, the stuff can't be stored underground or dumped in the ocean forever

Edited December 18, 2009 by Christie_M

[Mark of the Cross]

[quote name='Nihil Obstat' date='18 December 2009 - 04:01 PM' timestamp='1261112479' post='2022646']
Better the CEOs have the power than the big bad government, eh?
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There's some sort of difference?

[Mark of the Cross]

[quote name='Nihil Obstat' date='14 December 2009 - 11:24 AM' timestamp='1260750271' post='2019930']
It would be cool to save up nuclear waste for a few hundred years, then launch it in a rocket to smash into an asteroid. It would be expensive in the short term, but spread out over enough time it may be feasible.
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What about all the pollution from the rockets? And then...and then what happens when there's an accident and nuclear waste gets spread all over Canada?

[Didacus]

[quote name='Nihil Obstat' date='12 December 2009 - 03:37 PM' timestamp='1260650235' post='2019265']
[snip] I'm sure it would be better to find a way to convert radioactive materials into not-radioactive materials though.
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The elements do this naturally, of their own accord. It just takes them more time that's all.

Nuclear power is a major factor in didacuscorp's plans to take over the world. But we'll do it in a nice way.

[Didacus]

[quote name='Mark of the Cross' date='18 December 2009 - 03:42 AM' timestamp='1261125755' post='2022705']
What about all the pollution from the rockets? And then...and then what happens when there's an accident and nuclear waste gets spread all over Canada?
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Like that's never happened before...



If they could at least spread it over Quebec, at least we wouldn't have to deal with the stuff once they finally seperate.

[Jaime]

I'm waiting for the sun to get it right. Then maybe

[tinytherese]

Whenever I hear about nuclear power, I think of Homer Simpson and the job that he has.

[Nihil Obstat]

[quote name='Didacus' date='18 December 2009 - 08:09 AM' timestamp='1261145343' post='2022731']
The elements do this naturally, of their own accord. It just takes them more time that's all.


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Well quickly without all the annoying radiation poisoning.

[jeffpugh]

You know, I almost find the idea of nuclear power as... barbaric. Not as technological as I thought it would be... get a whole bunch of lead and stuff that stops bouncing particles, feed rods of radioactive stuff into the lead chambers which heat up water which makes the water move and turn the turbine. Then after a while the radioactive stuff becomes useless but is still utterly dangerous and essentially indestructible. What then?

[ardillacid]

Barbaric?

Taking a useless element and converting it into incredible amounts of energy while emitting no toxins except for a small amount of easily contained waste.

Nuclear technology makes every other way we have of generating energy look barbaric

[ardillacid]

[quote name='ThePenciledOne' date='17 December 2009 - 09:40 PM' timestamp='1261104042' post='2022550']
Sure let's give the CEOs of the power companies the power of a warhead.
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Firstly, the grade of uranium used for powerplants is not even CLOSE to what is used in a warhead. So unless these CEO's have 10,000 centrifuges in their backpocket then you really aren't giving them jack poo.

For how much croutons gets thrown their way, American nuclear powerplants have incredible safety records. I trust them to keep up the integrity of their plant more than I trust a politician not to use nuclear warheads on areas of dense civilian population.

[quote name='Christie_M' date='18 December 2009 - 01:10 AM' timestamp='1261116606' post='2022665']
I'm actually more for nuclear power then bio fuels., mostly because i think that the stuff used for bio fuel should be eaten
But i'm against it because of the waste problem. after all, the stuff can't be stored underground or dumped in the ocean forever
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Biofuels aren't necessarily crops. Other sources like corn stover, wood chips, etc., can be used.

[Nihil Obstat]

Anyone ever read about the Demon Core from during the Manhattan Project?