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In reply to the discussion: Russia Unveils Detailed Plans To Build 21 New Nuclear Power Units By 2030 [View all]intaglio
(8,170 posts)18. Oh, fun
TEPCO used to use MOX in 4 and, I believe, that 2 and 3 were still using it but the problems with MOX, e.g uncertain supplies (find our where those rods had to come from) and poorly understood reaction dynamics. That is why MOX is an unpopular fuel and why reprocessing is uneconomic.
Oh, if the Hoover Dam fails then several thousand people will die or be harmed at the time but rescue efforts will be able to start immediately and within a year people will be moving back. The effect will not last for years and decades with an ongoing death toll and damage to the world at large. I think you may be using false equivalence, so not even a nice try.
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Russia Unveils Detailed Plans To Build 21 New Nuclear Power Units By 2030 [View all]
FBaggins
Nov 2013
OP
Do they have any detailed plans about how they are going to dismantle them in 20 -50 years?
intaglio
Nov 2013
#2
So you are saying that long lived radio-isotopes are not present in nuclear waste.
intaglio
Nov 2013
#16
Nope... I'm not saying that. Nor most of the rest of your imagined statements.
FBaggins
Nov 2013
#20
And how does the fluid in the primary cooling circuit move through that circuit?
intaglio
Nov 2013
#62