"Dave R" wrote in message
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> You're completely in the dark if you think that fission power is safe.
No energy source is 'safe'. All energy types have dangers and environmental
consequences. For example, the UN estimates that 'renewable' biomass energy
emissions kill around 2.5 million people (many of them young children) every
year.
>Yes
> there are safe controls in place but fission has by-products that are
> deadly.
Some of them are. So is the Cadmium & Arsenic used in some solar cells (and
those remain toxic forever).
>And if you think Yucca Mtn. is the answer just go ask someone that
> lives in Las Vegas if they want the storage there.
>Fission power has stopped
> the research for safe nuclear power by it's past record.
I can't parse that sentence.
> The money has dried
> up for fussion power and that's the only true nuclear power that you can
say
> is safe.
No it hasn't. And Fusion power would have dangers and environmental
consequences as well. Sounds like an interesting idea though.
>A fussion reactor is turned off and on with a switch and a fission
> reactor is controlled by stopping it's fission rate. You take away that
> control and you have none.
Reactors have more than one control (and more than one cooling system).
>And to top it off we are stuck with it's waste.
Actually, the waste decays over time. To about 60% in a day or so. To about
.01% in around 10 years. To similar rates to some Uranium ores in less than
1000 years. It should be treated with respect though, as it is dangerous.
Karl Johanson
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