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Nuclear reactors, even small ones, have a lot of cost involved. Not just maintenance, security and safety costs but eventual decommissioning costs at EOL can run into huge spends. The idea sounds great but the power doesn't come cheap.
Funny how Russia, the evil empire, has been developing nuclear for the good of humanity while America, the good guys, has been using nuclear to scare the planet.
Unlike the comments, as an Indian I don't have a complain about a foreign youtuber using wrong version of map according to Indian government. As a foreigner you balanced it pretty well. Unlike other youtubers you showed things as disputed and current ceasefire lines, not directly part of any country. I like this approach. And as an Indian I think our government needs to do more than just claim things to make the world understand our demands. Till then this map is the most acceptable one among others.
The way i see it, it's not the fact of the matter that accidents can happen.. it's that they will happen. Chernobyl was caused by human error, with the plant occupants turning off safety systems and causing a meltdown. Even with the world turning and technology advancing around every corner, who's to say that an inside job could lead to another meltdown? Or god forbid a planned bombing capable enough to blow through that 6ft of concrete after that inside job created a meltdown. Highly unlikely but, nothing is impossible
Nuclear plants are braindead technology. Creating waste that kills all living things is sure "Clean". Doesnt matter where you put the trash, it will increase global radiation. Only reason why the trash of this planet wants nuclear energy is greed. Solar panels are the only way to get clean energy without impact anything. But tell low existences what they should do, which they wont, makes no sense does it? Only thing that humanity can do is trash talk to profit themself.
This is crap. There will never be mobile nuclear power stations for the same reason there are no mobile coal power stations - the inherent inefficiency of small steam boilers/reactors and turbines. Small modular nuclear reactors were thoroughly explored in - to my knowledge - at least six countries in the 50s and 60s, with billions (in today's money) spent. The Soviet Union in particular went for them in a big way to power and heat Siberian cities. Like everyone else, they concluded it was far cheaper to just build big Chernobyl type reactors and run power cables to where you need it. It has nothing to do with nuclear's safety and everything to do with the physics of precision large hunks of metal.
Best not to have that in a war zone. It would be a natural target or if the tides turned quickly it could fall into your enemies hands. Were your enemies a terrorist group that could get real bad for your allied cities. Think dirty bomb.
I work in the nuke industry. Imo, the GE ESBWR is the best new design, for large plants. Its the safest, simplistic and efficient. I hope to see one be built. I interviewed at the SCANA ap1000 project that was abandon. The interview was super disorganized and after i turned the job down, due to the low ball offer, they continued to call me back and asked me to come down and interview, not remembering I already had. Poor HR and recruiting are not always indicitive of a poor overall organization, but in this case it seems to have been. You also missed the Wyoming nuke project, that is funded.
Fear of radioactivity is the biggest detriment to development of energy sources used by the coal oil and gas industry to quash research. In a similar way research and development and employment of food irradiation , which could end world hunger and high food costs, is hindered by food production conglomerates. Until we rid the world of greedy special interests the poor will continue to suffer to pay the price.
Not so quickly. Thorium has a massive proliferation risk. It breaks down into uranium 233 which is very easy to extract and use in nuclear weapons. There are remaining challenges in restarting a reactor that has frozen for some reason. There is also a problem handling the highly corrosive molten salt. It’s not really ready yet. More research is needed.
One major reason is how there is rampant reservation system in India getting peolel with no skills the job to build this reactor. Many capable and good brains go out of India, the brain effects a lot. Especially started around the same time as the Thorium reactor started, the brain drain still continues.
