Cask Test - 1978

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Cites jjoonathan · 2020-04 · on “New nuclear reactor designs promise safe, clean electricity”

> Unless one of those plants was in New Orleans or Houston and suffered a Fukishima type meltdown If the nuclear industry were a person, when it built Fukushima it wouldn't have been old enough to drive a car. Today, it would be retired. It learned a thing or two in the intervening years. If Fukushima had been built a mere 2 years later it wouldn't have had its fatal flaw. There are some horrible reactor designs still out there posing a danger to everybody -- but refusing to build new reactors because extremely old reactors were (and still are!) dangerous is... tragic. > if one of the thousands of trucks and rail cars that would be required to ship nuclear waste to centralized storage locati

Cites kennend3 · 2022-08 · on “Nuclear power is the climate superhero too nervous to wear its cape”

Have you ever seen a storage Cask used to transport/store nuclear waste after it leaves the pools? How much energy was delivered to the cask when a rocket powered train hit it at 84 mph? [this video] How much radioactive material was released? Are you aware that in earths distant past there were natural nuclear reactors running? if you go back in time the amount of U235 increases. Go back far enough and you no longer need to "enrich" it to support a nuclear reactor. Care to guess how far the radioactive byproducts from this reactor travelled? Not sure about Ukraines designs, but here (Canada) our reactors can withstand the impact of a fully loaded jet slamming into them. Nothing is invincible, an

Cites kennend3 · 2022-08 · on “Nuclear power is the climate superhero too nervous to wear its cape”

Good thing the people designing the transport casks never thought of that.. you should join their team.. Oh wait.. they did in 1972, and tested the designs? How much energy was delivered to the cask when a rocket powered train hit it at 84 mph? [this video] How much radioactive material was released? What sort of accident do you propose would deliver more energy vs a train strike at 84mph?

Cites nick238 · 2024-07 · on “A New Specialized Train Is Ready to Haul Nuclear Waste”

> My point was the existing solutions people were sure would work still leaked in relatively short time frames. What are you referring to? The aforementioned UF6 canisters were a) NOT designed for long-term holding, more adapted from existing HF storage canisters (you can read some of the fun of storing fluorine compounds in the book "Ignition!" about liquid-fueled rockets), and as mentioned b) high level nuclear waste is vitrified to turn it into a non-volatile, non-dissolving, ceramic material that is largely stable by itself. > ... 30000 years of facility maintenance costs ... There are a variety of unused mines that could house high-level waste; the excavation is already done, thus fairl