Jovial Monk wrote on Nov 17^th, 2015 at 3:45am:


nuclear power plants are not ordinary industrial infrastructure.

They produce toxic and long lived nuclear waste that needs to be isolated from humans and the environment for many hundreds of thousands of years.

Nuclear power plants need access to power and water even when they are offline. Spent Nuclear cores remain thermally hot for many years after they have been removed from the reactor.

Can you guarantee water supply and power??

Like they did at Fukushima

Plutonium half life is 24,000 years - the most toxic of substances humans have made. It takes between 10 an 20 half lives for these dangerous radionuclides to decay away to background levels.

How are you going to ensure Plutonium isnt used for weaponry or remains safely isolated for at least 1/4 of a million years???

And of course we have isotopes that linger around for longer periods than that - billion of years, like Uranium.

its OK for a coal powered plant to fail, but a nuclear core is another matter. Provide an example of a fool proof industrial process or mechanisation and then describe your perfect nuclear waste management system that will robust for the next 100 million years

Apologise and self ban for 48 hours

'AHWR

India is developing the Advanced Heavy Water Reactor (AHWR) as the third stage in its plan to utilise thorium to fuel its overall nuclear power program. The AHWR is a 300 MWe gross (284 MWe net, 920 MWt) reactor moderated by heavy water at low pressure.'

'In 2009 an export version of this design was announced: the AHWR-LEU. This will use low-enriched uranium plus thorium as a fuel, dispensing with the plutonium input. About 39% of the power will come from thorium (via in situ conversion to U-233), and burn-up will be 64 GWd/t. Uranium enrichment level will be 19.75%, giving 4.21% average fissile content of the U-Th fuel. While designed for closed fuel cycle, this is not required. Plutonium production will be less than in light water reactors, and the fissile proportion will be less and the Pu-238 portion three times as high, giving inherent proliferation resistance. The AEC says that "the reactor is manageable with modest industrial infrastructure within the reach of developing countries." '

http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/Nuclear-Fuel-Cycle/Power-Reactors/Advanced-Nuc...

Chimp_Logic wrote on Nov 17^th, 2015 at 11:14am:



It's a long time since I gave that sermon.

Apparently  linfox and toll have ordered over 500 of these new electric trucks..........

Oh hang on...I made that up...  

There is No fool like a green fool.