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THORIUM Nuclear Power: A Practical Alternative to Uranium Fission - It Makes a Low Amount of Radioactive Waste, Unlikely to Meltdown, Abundant Fuel.

In 2021, Russia provided US nuclear utilities with 14 percent of their uranium purchases. We Can Mine Our Own Thorium... 

Thorium fuel cycles offer attractive features, including lower levels of waste generation, less transuranic elements in that waste, and providing a diversification option for nuclear fuel supply. Also, the use of thorium in most reactor types leads to extra safety margins.

Thorium-based nuclear power generation is fueled primarily by the nuclear fission of the isotope uranium-233 produced from the fertile element thorium. A thorium fuel cycle can offer several potential advantages over a uranium fuel cycle[Note 1]—including the much greater abundance of thorium found on Earth, superior physical and nuclear fuel properties, and reduced nuclear waste production. One advantage of thorium fuel is its low weaponization potential; it is difficult to weaponize the uranium-233/232 and plutonium-238 isotopes that are largely consumed in thorium reactors.

China prepares to test thorium-fueled nuclear reactor...
Scientists are excited about an experimental nuclear reactor using thorium as fuel, which is about to begin tests in China. Although this radioactive element has been trialled in reactors before, experts say that China is the first to have a shot at commercializing the technology.

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The Thorium Dream

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Thorium: An Energy Solution

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Thorium Reactor Diagram

Andrew Yang Wants a Thorium Reactor by 2027.

Little Susie asked: "Mommy, What's Gay? Why Can't We Say It?" and Governor RON DEATH SANTA'S CrazyLaw® Experiences Massive BLOWBACK!

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Hey Patriots! Governor Ron Death Santa Just Signed the "Don't Say Gay" Law. Whatcha Gonna Do Now? I'm Going to Disney World! --- Frankly Speaking, I spent Five Days Exploring EPCOT and Disney World and It was One of the Best Experiences of My Entire Life! I Drove down there and went Camping nearby. I went Early in the Morning for a few Hours, then went back to the Campsite and took a Nap... then Returned at Night... Truly Amazing!
Everyone Ought to Take That Trip!

#ImpeachJusticeThomas is trending on Twitter

How to Fix the Supreme Court:  

Impeach "Justice" Thomas the #QAnonSCOTUS 

Can the GOP Get Any More Corrupt? 

His Wife's Text Messages Are About Overthrowing The US Government and Crowning Trump KING! 

Freedom! Liberty! Lock 'em UP!

and then Impeach Bratt Kava Kava Noogie!

and Anti-Choice Amy! 

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Cory Booker Says SCOTUS Needs to “Use This Thomas Affair” to Change Its Ethics Rules

“Clearly” Justice Thomas “should have recused himself” from election cases.


The Supreme Court’s Clarence and Ginni Thomas Scandal Is Unprecedented

Justice Clarence Thomas voted to block the public from knowing more about his wife Virginia Thomas’s role in the January insurrection. It’s a crisis... 

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/supreme-court-clarence-thomas-ginni-thomas-texts-1327064/

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Did you ever notice that there are HIDDEN MESSAGES in the QAnon Yadda Yadda?
LOOK! UNDERSTAND! and #RUNAWAY!

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After about a Million People Took LSD, We ended the War in Vietnam and the Government Stopped Forcing People to Be Soldiers (the Draft).

Basically, The USA WOKE THE F*CK UP! and there was Peace for 15 Years...

Until Ronald Ray Gun Took sides in a Civil War in Nicaragua. Still today we have an all volunteer army... and Soldiers Stopped Dying in Massive Numbers!

AWAKENING is a GREAT SURVIVAL SKILL!
Chart of Soldiers Dying in American Wars - DoD Data

"The LSD Story" is an episode of the American television series Dragnet that appeared on the NBC network on January 12, 1967. It was written, produced and directed by Jack Webb, who also starred as Joe Friday. It is sometimes called "Blue Boy" after a character appearing on it. This was the first color episode broadcast of Dragnet. 

My doctor refused to write a Prescription for Medical Marijuana because he gets Federal Funding for Rural Doctors and Hospitals... and If He Started Prescribing Medical Marijuana they would Stop Paying Him. 
The FEDERAL Law is INSANE!
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Amount of Money on the Stock Market
in the History of the Universe!
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Ukrainians Firing Depleted Uranium Bullets Could Stop Russian Tanks! The Bullets Go Right Thru Steel and Bounce Around inside the Tank where 
the Soldiers Are... Killing Them...
 
I Believe in Self Defense and an 
OUTRAGEOUS Self Defense is Best! 
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JW SAID: Do you know what happens after they hit a target? I wouldn't want my country poisoned for eternity with uranium dust. That shit never goes away.

I Replied: What Happens is Genocide... After they were used in Yugoslavia and Iraq there was an Increase in Miscarriages... The people of that region had fewer children... Their GENES were not passed on to future generations... That's the Definition of Genocide... SO... What if there were Fewer Ukrainians and Fewer Russians in the Future?

PA SAID: Yup...we can keep arming them until Putin finally has enough and presses his buttons huh! Why not, damn worlds going to hell anyway, right!

I Replied: Ukrainians armed with Depleted Uranium Bullets could Shoot at Russian Tanks and Stop Them Entirely... The Bullets go right thru the Steel Armor and then Bounce Around wildly inside the Compartment where the Soldiers Are... Killing Them...

The Corporation that Made the Depleted Uranium Bullets we used in Iraq became an EPA Superfund Site: A Place So Toxic it Requires Federal Money to Clean it UP!

NUCLEAR METALS, INC. of CONCORD, MA.


FC SAID: I participated in a study, back in the day, using DUB's (pron "Doobs") to test whether a building that we were working on would be safe against firearms. The DUBs did pierce steel, but became ineffective after about 3/4 inches.
I believe that tanks are up to 6" of steel on them.
The DUBs were effective against the commercially available "bullet-proof" vests we tried them on.
And they paid me to target practice.

and I Replied: Good to Know! I believe the Rounds Used in the Iraq War were "Shells" - a Much bigger bullet... and the war in Yugoslavia also... Shells are fired out of a Cannon... I guess... I really don't know that much about guns... The Thing I read said the Depleted Uranium caught on fire when it hit the tank wall and burned a hole into the passengers area... Then it either killed the person by bouncing around inside the tank and hitting the soldier or the Radioactive Poison killed them later... Whatever... a Truly Effective Weapon.

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This might be handy knowledge if
you were fighting a war In Ukraine...
Just Wondering... Do any of you Know?


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depleted_uranium Military uses include armor plating and armor-piercing projectiles.
Most depleted uranium arises as a by-product of the production of enriched uranium for use as fuel in nuclear reactors and in the manufacture of nuclear weapons.

AK Said: Sounds like a good way to spread radiation contamination?
I think they're supposed to be figuring out how to harness that energy for a fuel source.

and I replied: The use of DU in munitions is controversial because of concerns about potential long-term health effects.[7][8] Normal functioning of the kidney, brain, liver, heart, and numerous other systems can be affected by exposure to uranium, a toxic metal.[9] The biological half-life (the average time it takes for the human body to eliminate half the amount in the body) for uranium is about 15 days.[10] The aerosol or spallation frangible powder produced by impact and combustion of depleted uranium munitions can potentially contaminate wide areas around the impact sites, leading to possible inhalation by human beings.[11] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depleted_uranium

Uranium hexafluoride (UF 6), 
colloquially known as "hex" in the nuclear industry, is the inorganic compound with the formula UF6. 
    Shoot Atomic Waste into the Sun Using Rockets meme

    Because: Shooting Atomic Waste into the Sun would Cost a Fortune... Because Uranium Weighs a Lot and Rockets charge by the pound to get anything off the Planet... and every so often they BLOW UP like the Challenger and Share Radioactive Fallout Globally... That's why we should not shoot Atomic Waste into the Sun using Rockets.

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    In California there’s one spot where the water isn’t so teeth-chattering cold and instead feels much like a lukewarm bath: Diablo Cove, the oblong 40-acre inlet that sits at the base of PG&E’s Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant near Avila Beach. There, the ocean waters are heated by the power plant’s cooling system, which sucks in and spits out billions of gallons of seawater every day. https://www.sanluisobispo.com/news/local/environment/article258804173.html

    and then I Read on FaceBORG: I have disliked Mike Lindell commercials for many years, but his latest one hits a new low: buy my product because a bunch of people and companies are trying to "cancel" me. Cancel culture! Democrats eat babies! They're teaching law school courses to your kindergarteners!
    Mike, I originally wouldn't buy your pillow because I research before I buy. From now on, I won't buy any product you *endorse*, even if it's not your own. "Waah waah, I'm being persecuted by people who don't worship America's first god-emperor" is NOT persuasive!

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    Put Putin in Prison - and Putin's Puppet Too!
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    I Wrote to These Four People. Told 'em my Opinion... They'll Never Know What I Think Unless I Tell 'em. 





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    Find Your Representative:

    Interest in Eastern Religion is Fundamentally BEATLEMANIA. Teenagers Going Ga Ga over The Fab Four's Adventure. We must Remember that Back when India was a Colony, Young Men in England Often Went there as a Coming of Age Ritual. Serving in the Military or as Employees of a British Corporation... It's No Surprise That The Beatles Made that Same Journey... It's Kind of a Phase People Go Thru... Like American College Students Read "The Russians" as a Part of their Undergraduate Education... or Spending the Junior Year in Europe... Investigating Eastern Religion is a Step on their Spiritual Journey... and Once We Have Done That Step, it's time to Move On... It would be really silly to be Chanting Sanskrit in Your 40s... "Oh Wah, Tofu, Liam... Oh Wah, Tofu, Liam... Oh What A Fool I Am..."

    Another Example of "Lads Gone Native" is the Tale of Lord Greystoke... also known as Tarzan... In Fact, Many British Men went to Africa to Build Railroads and Entire Towns in the Colonies. A Great Movie about this is "The Ghost and the Darkness" - it's a 1996 American historical adventure film starring Val Kilmer and Michael Douglas. The screenplay is a fictionalized account of the Tsavo man-eaters, a pair of male lions that terrorized workers in and around Tsavo, Kenya during the building of the Uganda-Mombasa Railway in East Africa in 1898.

    Of Course, "After Bathing at Baxters" (Eating LSD) there is an Automatic Interest in Eastern Religion... Mainly because one of the Standard Effects of Psychedelics is that "True Enlightenment" Feeling... I Felt like I Was The Buddha... Watching a Sunrise While Sitting in a Field in Chico, CA - Many People Have a Religious Experience and Almost None simulate what Happened to Jesus... Most Simulate Moses or Buddha or KRSNA. And then Later it's FUN to Read Books Like "Remember, Be Here Now" that appeals to American Teenagers Just Like Any Other Comic Book Would. Most of that Book is Wonderful Illustrations with a Few Words Explaining the Fundamentals of Hinduism... It's Ironic that the Man who taught Richard Alpert to Be Here Now was a Laguna Beach Surfer Named Kermit Michael Riggs. So They Both went all the way to India to Get California Teachings! But Seriously, They Both Had Many Interesting Experiences There and Met a Guru... 

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhagavan_Das_(yogi)

    It's pretty Obvious that Vladimir Putin Has Not Had the LSD Experience. He Still Has that Pre-Psychedelic World View... Some People Missed the Magic Bus and It Shows... SAD... 

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    This Shirt has the Slogan Repeated Many Times 
    AS IF a Crowd Was CHANTING...
     Like They Did at the Republican Convention...

    Ironocally, They FAILED to Lock Her UP!

    and Ivanka used a private server for Government Emails! Investigate #Ivankagate 

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    I predict the GOP will Take the House in 2022 and Impeach Biden. He will not be convicted in the Senate. So They will Impeach Him again... and again... and again... ManyTimes before the 2024 election... Biden Will Not Run in 2024... Gavin Newsom Will Win the 2024 Election... and Camelot will Reign Again... Like JFK and Jackie Kennedy...

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    POP QUIZ!

    WHAT DO THESE PEOPLE HAVE IN COMMON? Jeff Fortenberry=Guilty, Guy Reffitt=Guilty, Robert "Fudge" Packer=Guilty, 'QAnon Shaman' Jacob Chansley=Guilty, Donald "Kirk" Hartle=Guilty, Lev Parnas=Guilty, Igor Fruman=Guilty, Nikolas Cruz=Guilty, John Lambert=Guilty, Roger Stone=Guilty, Paul Manafort=Guilty, Mike Flynn=Guilty, Michael Cohen=Guilty, Rick Gates=Guilty, George Papadopoulos=Guilty, Alexander Vanderzwaan=Guilty, Maria Butina=Guilty, Paul Erickson = Guilty, Duncan Hunter=Guilty, Chris Collins=Guilty, Steve Bannon=Contempt of Congress...

    CAN YOU SPOT THE FREAKING TREND? ANSWER:
    They are All TrumpNik® Swamp Creatures...
    Remember: 768 people have been charged in the Capitol insurrection so far... Lock 'em UP! 


    People will Write Anything if They are Paid... Check out this Bogus Pro-Nuke article by a "Fellow" at The Heritage Foundation... Stephen Moore: "Tell Me Boss, What's the Conclusion You Want."

    He spends half a sentence on atomic waste in this article... That's the fatal flaw of Nuclear Power... You have to store it for thousands of years and guard it as well... We can't have terrorists stealing the radioactive waste to build a dirty bomb... Or Have a FREAK Place a Stick of Dynamite under a Storage Cask... 

    He says: "I'm not a cheerleader for nuclear power." [that's a dead give-away that he IS a Cheerleader for Nuclear Power]  "The storage of nuclear waste and the accidents such as Fukushima make everyone understandably nervous." He's Right! People ARE nervous... Nukes are dangerous! Not Just Now but for 10,000 YEARS into the Future!

    I heard that people near Three Mile Island could Taste The Air... It tasted "Metallic".

    One thing he fails to notice is that power companies hate Nuclear power and love solar/wind. No new nukes have been built since the 1970's and hundreds of solar/wind plants have been built... That's reality. PG&E and SoCal Edison simply refuse to go Nuke.

    Stephen Moore: Author of "Fueling Freedom: Exposing the Mad War on Energy"

    http://www.qconline.com/opinion/why-do-the-greens-hate-nuclear-power/article_74619ff7-da99-5e9b-9e34-c5e3b2a6ee12.html

    Electric Power Generator
    Converts Human Fat into Electricity
    The House budget proposal for the Hanford Nuclear Reservation next year would add almost $54 million to the amount requested by the Trump administration.
    http://komonews.com/news/local/house-budget-restores-54-million-to-hanford-nuke-cleanup

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    THEY DID NAZI THAT COMING. Russians Holding Nuclear Power Plants Hostage. "Surrender or We'll Explode a Dirty Bomb and Freaking Nuke Europe." - Possible Threat by Putin!

    Of all the Horrible things about Atomic Power... This is Something the Designers Did Not Plan For. 

    I Hope that Russia Does NOT Get Frantic at the End of this War and Blow Up a Power Plant for Revenge... When they Lose... 

    I don't want to add Zaporizhzhia to the List... ChernobylFukushimaTMISanta Susana Field LaboratoryNyonoksa ... 


    https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/02/analysis-nuclear-disaster-ukraine-could-make-swaths-europe-uninhabitable-decades

    Analysis: Nuclear Disaster in Ukraine Could Make Swaths of Europe 'Uninhabitable for Decades'

    Russia's assault on Ukraine risks nuclear devastation "far worse even than the Fukushima Daiichi catastrophe of 2011," Greenpeace warns.

    Russia Accused of 'Nuclear Terror' After Fire at Zaporizhzhia Power Plant

    "This is the biggest nuclear power plant in Europe," said one nuclear non-proliferation group. "We are perched on the precipice of catastrophe."

    SOLAR, WIND, HYDRO & BIOMASS are Cheaper than Nuclear Power Plants... That's Why We Aren't Building any Nukes. That and the Radioactive Waste That has to be Stored and Guarded for 10,000 Years... To Prevent Terrorists from Building a Dirty Bomb...

    The Danger of A Crazy Man Simply Placing a Traditional Bomb Under A Cask of Atomic Waste is IMMENSE... Sometime During the 10,000 Years That Nuclear Waste is Actively Radioactive, It's Almost Certain that a "WhackJob" will Blow It Up!

    Unemployed Physics Graduates Can't Get a Job in the Nuclear Power Industry so they Write Magazine Articles all about how wonderful Nukes Are... and Make Pro Nuke Videos...

    Unemployed Physics Graduates Can't Get a Job in the Nuclear Power Industry so they Write Magazine Articles all about how wonderful Nukes Are... and Make Pro Nuke Videos...

    SOLAR, WIND & HYDRO are Cheaper... That's Why We Aren't Building Nuclear Power Plants. DUH.
    In 1976 PG&E Said NO NUKES! and Shut it Down... The Humboldt Bay Power Plant, Unit 3 was a 63 MWe boiling water reactor, owned by Pacific Gas and Electric Company that operated from August 1963 to July 1976 just south of Eureka, California... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humboldt_Bay_Nuclear_Power_Plant

    SOLAR, WIND & HYDRO are Cheaper... That's Why We Aren't Building Nuclear Power Plants. DUH.

    Power - No Nukes concert

    SOLAR, WIND & HYDRO are Cheaper... That's Why We Aren't Building Nuclear Power Plants. DUH.
     Remember: The Only Good Nuke is a Decommissioned Nuke... Shut 'em DOWN!

    SOLAR, WIND & HYDRO are Cheaper... That's Why We Aren't Building Nuclear Power Plants. DUH.
    What is the main reason why fewer nuclear power plants are being built today compared to 40 years ago? Nuclear power plants have become too expensive to generate electricity at a reasonable cost. Which of the following accurately describes the use of fossil fuels for energy?

    SOLAR, WIND & HYDRO are Cheaper... That's Why We Aren't Building Nuclear Power Plants. DUH.

    https://web.archive.org/web/20110825210125/
    http://redwoodalliance.dreamhosters.com/files/10-98NFT.pdf

    Humboldt Nuke Faces Dismantling By Jim Adams Twenty-two years after shutdown, PG&E’s Humboldt Bay Nuclear Power Plant may become the first commercial reactor to be dismantled or decommissioned in the US. A major project got underway in September as the 250 ft. tall concrete vent stack began to be demolished. The utility has also announced its intent to remove 390 spent (irradiated) fuel rods from the pool at the plant, and place them in on-site steel containers called dry casks. For more than a decade, Redwood Alliance has urged PG&E to take this action. This will keep our community safe and allow complete dismantling to take place. Four miles south of Eureka and adjacent to Humboldt Bay, the Humboldt nuke sits on top of and close to major earthquake faults. The Alliance has worked since 1978 to make sure that the nuclear plant, one of the oldest and dirtiest in the country, would never reopen and will be properly dismantled.
    SOLAR, WIND & HYDRO are Cheaper... That's Why We Aren't Building Nuclear Power Plants. DUH.

    The Nyonoksa radiation accident occurred on 8 August 2019 near Nyonoksa, Russian Federation. Five military and civilian specialists were killed and three (or six, depending on the source) were injured.[1][2][3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyonoksa_radiation_accident
    American intelligence officials are racing to understand a mysterious explosion that released radiation off the coast of northern Russia last week, apparently during the test of a new type of nuclear-propelled cruise missile hailed by President Vladimir V. Putin as the centerpiece of Moscow’s arms race with the United States.

    Nuclear power is losing ground to renewables in terms of both cost and capacity as its reactors are increasingly seen as less economical and slower to reverse carbon emissions, an industry report said.
    Nuclear power is slowly going out of style. Back in 1996, atomic energy supplied 17.6 percent of the world's electricity. Today that's down to just 10.8 percent — and it could drop even further in the years ahead.

    The 7 reasons why nuclear energy is not the answer to solve climate change.
    Analysis: New nuclear power costs about 5 times more than onshore wind power per kWh. Nuclear takes 5 to 17 years longer between planning and operation and produces on average 23 times the emissions per unit electricity generated. In addition, it creates risk and cost associated with weapons proliferation, meltdown, mining lung cancer, and waste risks. Clean, renewables avoid all such risks.

    The hot lab suffered a number of fires involving radioactive materials. For example, in 1957, a fire in the hot cell "got out of control and ... massive contamination" resulted.[23]
    At least four of the ten nuclear reactors suffered accidents: 1) The AE6 reactor experienced a release of fission gases in March 1959.[24] 2) In July 1959, the SRE experienced a power excursion and partial meltdown that released 28 Curies of radioactive noble gasses. The release resulted in the maximum off-site exposure of 0.099 millirem and an exposure of 0.018 millirem for the nearest residential building which is well within current limits today.[25] 3) In 1964, the SNAP8ER experienced damage to 80% of its fuel. 4) In 1969 the SNAP8DR experienced similar damage to one-third of its fuel.[24]
    A radioactive fire occurred in 1971, involving combustible primary reactor coolant (NaK) contaminated with mixed fission products.[26][27]
    The reactors located on the grounds of SSFL were considered experimental, and therefore had no containment structures. Reactors and highly radioactive components were housed without the large concrete domes that surround modern power reactors.[citation needed]

    and then a Guy of FaceBorg Said:  
    I recommend this page, 
    it debunks the lies about "radiation deaths" supposedly caused by nuclear power. Give it an honest try. I used to be against nuclear power, 3 Mile Island was closed, and yet there was no radiation or damage outside the plant itself. Even Fukishima radiation was down to backround levels within a few hundred yards of the plant. Wildlife is everywhere around Chernobyl, with no observed radiation problems. This site will respond to your arguments against nuclear power with reason and demonstrable statisitics to back their argument that it is safe. I support Solar and Wind power, but it is nowhere near being able to completely replace fossil fuels, just ask Germany, with their new gas pipeline coming from Russia.

    Why did the Nuclear Waste policy act fail? 
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_Waste_Policy_Act
    The Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 is a United States federal law which established a comprehensive national program for the safe, permanent disposal of highly radioactive wastes

    The Nuclear Waste Fund previously received $750 million in fee revenues each year and had an unspent balance of $44.5 billion as of the end of FY2017.[8] However (according to the Draft Report by the Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future), actions by both Congress and the Executive Branch have made the money in the fund effectively inaccessible to serving its original purpose. The commission made several recommendations on how this situation may be corrected.[9]

    In December 1987, Congress amended the Nuclear Waste Policy Act to designate Yucca Mountain, Nevada, as the only site to be characterized as a permanent repository for all of the nation's nuclear waste.[11] The plan was added to the fiscal 1988 budget reconciliation bill signed on December 22, 1987.

    On March 5, 2009, Energy Secretary Steven Chu told a Senate hearing the Yucca Mountain site is no longer viewed as an option for storing reactor waste.[19] 

    Regardless of whether you are for or against nuclear power, and no matter what you think of nuclear weapons, the radioactive waste is already here, and we have to deal with it.”


    That’s Gerald S. Frankel’s matter-of-fact take on the thousands of metric tons of used solid fuel from nuclear power plants worldwide and the millions of liters of radioactive liquid waste from weapons production that sit in temporary storage containers in the US. While these waste materials, which can be harmful to human health and the environment, wait for a more permanent home, their containers age. In some cases, the aging containers have already begun leaking their toxic contents.

    “It’s a societal problem that has been handed down to us from our parents’ generation,” says Frankel, who is a materials scientist at the Ohio State University. “And we are—more or less—handing it to our children.”


    IN BRIEF:

    More than a quarter million metric tons of highly radioactive waste sits in storage near nuclear power plants and weapons production facilities worldwide, with over 90,000 metric tons in the US alone. Emitting radiation that can pose serious risks to human health and the environment, the waste, much of it decades old, awaits permanent disposal in geological repositories, but none are operational. With nowhere to go for now, the hazardous materials and their containers continue to age. That unsustainable situation is driving corrosion experts to better understand how steel, glass, and other materials proposed for long-term nuclear waste storage containers might degrade. Read on to learn how these researchers’ findings might help protect people and the environment from waste leakages.

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    Both are Variations on the Same Theme... 
    NO NUKES!
    Rainbow Alternative to Atomic Hazard Sign Large Tote Bag
    Rainbow Alternative to Atomic Hazard Sign Large Tote Bag
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    Rainbow Atomic No Danger Sign Ornament
    by gregvan


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    Rainbow Atomic No Danger Sign Large Tote Bag
    Rainbow Atomic No Danger Sign Large Tote Bag
    by gregvan


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