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localroger

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14. Well if you think I'm ignorant...

Reply to NNadir (Reply #13)

Sun Jul 17, 2022, 09:37 PM

Jul 2022

...what exactly about my explanation of where nuclear waste comes from, why it exists, and why it is so difficult to deal with is wrong? Because you didn't address any of that. Congratulations, you can post a graph. I don't need one to make my point. In a nuclear reactor an atom of U235 splits to, in one particular instance, make an atom of Barium 139 and Krypton 95, both of which are intensely radioactive and will further decay into other elements, some of them toxic, with lots of neutrons and gamma rays sprayed around in the process. Where do those two atoms go smart guy? Does the Atomic Energy is Good fairy magically disappear them? I gave you a lecture on nuclear energy because you don't seem to know anything about it except platitudes. But platitudes aren't toxic or radioactive.

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A Commentary on Failure, Delusion and Faith: Danish Data on Big Wind Turbines and Their Lifetimes. [View all] NNadir Jul 2022 OP

Carry on cbabe Jul 2022 #1

Upton Sinclair stated it so well: ZZenith Jul 2022 #2

An apt criticism of natural gas dependent "renewable energy" schemes, perhaps? hunter Jul 2022 #5

Exactly equivalent. Carrying on about Fukushima in particular is abysmally stupid... NNadir Jul 2022 #3

Well allow me to be the first localroger Jul 2022 #8

I have no use, zero, for carrying on about Three Mile Island, nor do I have any use for doing... NNadir Jul 2022 #10

I do not have an "absurd fear" of radioactive materials. I have respect for them. localroger Jul 2022 #12

So your Dad was a scientist? You did a high school project?. NNadir Jul 2022 #15

I see you missed the part where I work in industry with high technology localroger Jul 2022 #16

I'm responsible for buying millions of dollars of high tech equipment. NNadir Jul 2022 #17

You see only what you want to see, and hear only what you want to hear localroger Jul 2022 #18

Is world total turbine capacity a small multiple of the Danish figure? 4dog Jul 2022 #4

It doesn't take too much spreadsheet work to estimate an answer to your question. NNadir Jul 2022 #7

Accidents are bad, but they are not the deal-killer with nuclear localroger Jul 2022 #6

Actually, the deal killer of "waste" should apply to dangerous fossil fuels, not used nuclear fuel. NNadir Jul 2022 #9

Excuse me but you do not seem to know what you are talking about localroger Jul 2022 #11

Really? I'm getting a lecture on nuclear fuels and fission physics? NNadir Jul 2022 #13

Well if you think I'm ignorant... localroger Jul 2022 #14