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John_Taverner Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 2217 Gender:	Re: Nuclear Power Is Not The Way To Go For Australia Reply #30 - Oct 13^th, 2022 at 6:33am Jovial Monk wrote on Oct 13^th, 2022 at 6:15am: Bury the waste in the Broken Hill mines that are no longer used. The mines are hard rock, no moisture, and go down very deep. Too close to a population centre. 20,000 people would have a problem with that. There are better places.
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Reply #31 - Oct 13^th, 2022 at 6:34am

Belgarion wrote on Oct 12^th, 2022 at 6:35pm:

I will set you some homework Bobby. You will find out:

1. The number of radiation deaths caused by the Three Mile Island and Fukushima incidents.

2. What caused the Chernobyl incident? How have procedures changed since then?

3. Detail the safety standards required of a modern reactor containment structure.

4. What is a millisievert?

The answers are all readily available, either in my previous posts on this matter or with a bit of online searching.

At last somebpdy who understands.

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Reply #32 - Oct 13^th, 2022 at 6:50am

Dnarever wrote on Oct 12^th, 2022 at 7:48pm:

Bobby. wrote on Oct 5^th, 2022 at 5:26am:

Hi Sir Crook,
I was hoping we'd have large scale Thorium molten salt reactors by now
which would be: safe, cheap and give us unlimited power forever.

https://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1519823686/150#150

There are obviously a lot of technical problems otherwise
we'd have massive Thorium power stations already.
At least India and China are working on it.
I can't wait till they solve all the problems.

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I was hoping we'd have large scale Thorium molten salt reactors by now
which would be: safe, cheap and give us unlimited power forever.

I agree. However the best policy till that is a reality in my opinion is to just stay out of it.

Go to nuclear when it is safe and cheap, not before.

Yes let's wait -
Thorium power is worth waiting for.
Molten salt reactors have worked before -
a reactor was working for 3 years till 1969.
https://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1519823686/75

I don't believe the engineering problems are insurmountable.
Thorium would answer all of our problems as we would have very cheap power
that was super safe and which made hardly any waste.
Reactors would not be working at high pressures.
They would even be safe during wartime conditions.

Uranium reactors are not safe - they are very dangerous -
they work at high pressures and are like a bomb ready to go off
when something goes wrong -
and they produce mega amounts of radioactive waste.

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Reply #33 - Oct 13^th, 2022 at 9:38am

Bobby. wrote on Oct 5^th, 2022 at 8:06am:

Belgarion wrote on Oct 5^th, 2022 at 7:52am:

Yet more of the increasingly hysterical anti nuclear propaganda being peddled by the usual suspects.
Of you want safe reliable power then nuclear is the only way to go.

Current nuclear reactors are not safe.

Were any designed for war time conditions?

Watch the Ukraine saga.

Has anyone answered the above question yet?

If I let myself be bought then I am no longer free.

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Reply #34 - Oct 13^th, 2022 at 10:08am

Lisa Jones wrote on Oct 13^th, 2022 at 9:38am:

Bobby. wrote on Oct 5^th, 2022 at 8:06am:

Belgarion wrote on Oct 5^th, 2022 at 7:52am:

Yet more of the increasingly hysterical anti nuclear propaganda being peddled by the usual suspects.
Of you want safe reliable power then nuclear is the only way to go.

Current nuclear reactors are not safe.

Were any designed for war time conditions?

Watch the Ukraine saga.

Has anyone answered the above question yet?

Yes, several times, however the Luddites don't want to listen. Roll Eyes

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