StirCrazy wrote:
larry cad wrote:
agesilaus wrote:
Too much Jane Fonda for you piano. Tell why do you think nuke plants are dangerous in the US?
"Dangerous"?? He didn't say dangerous, he said "HIGHLY" dangerous, as an example, the hundreds of people dropping dead every day from nuclear accidents!
you do know Ontrio has been running nuke plants for a lont time, right. aside from Hydro power it is the cleanest form of power.
Steve
Do YOU know WHERE all the spent rods are STORED?
HEREInterim storage until permanent storage location can be found..
HERE"When used nuclear fuel bundles are removed from a reactor, they are placed in a water-filled pool where their heat and radioactivity decrease. After seven to ten years, the bundles are placed in dry storage containers, silos or vaults. Dry storage is a proven technology that has been in use around the world since the 1980s.
Dry storage containers are made of reinforced high-density concrete about 510 millimetres (20 inches) thick and are lined inside and outside with 12.7-millimetre-thick (half-inch) steel plate. The thickness of concrete provides an effective barrier against radiation. "BUT, the issue now becomes that the dry "storage" containers are not really designed for more than 50yrs of storage.. Then what?
"The dry storage containers have a minimum design life of 50 years. They are actively monitored, and studies indicate that with ongoing maintenance and inspections these containers can be safely used for much longer periods of time. After 50 years the life of the container could be extended, or the used fuel could be repackaged. These decisions will depend on a number of factors, including the timeline for implementing Adaptive Phased Management.
Although the used fuel's radioactivity decreases with time, chemical toxicity persists. The used fuel will remain a potential health risk for many hundreds of thousands of years. For this reason, it requires careful management.
Canada’s used nuclear fuel is currently safely managed in facilities licensed for interim storage. These facilities are located at nuclear reactor sites in Ontario, Quebec, and New Brunswick, and at Atomic Energy of Canada Limited's sites in Manitoba and Chalk River Laboratories in Ontario."Storage search has narrowed..
HERE"The hunt for a place to permanently store used nuclear fuel rods -- about 2.7 million bundles currently exist -- began in earnest in 2010, with 22 communities expressing interest.
The dangerous material is currently stored in pools of water or in vaults on site at reactors in Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick and Manitoba.
The envisaged repository would be about 500 metres underground."Clean?
Safe?
Yeah right, how would you love to be sitting on 2.7 MILLION bundles of highly radioactive spent fuel rods right under your nose?
THEY ARE sitting right under your nose.
EVERY Nuclear power plant by design MUST have some on site spent fuel rod storage as part of the process of operations.. At this moment every Nuclear power plant operating AND decommissioned plants have highly radioactive spent fuel rods sitting in pools and or dry storage on site.. Those rods WILL be deadly highly radioactive for HUNDRED OF THOUSANDS OF YEARS my friend.
WAKE UP FOLKS, Nuclear power is not safe, clean or environmentally friendly.. You are just trading one "poison" for another "poison" creating a huge mess for mankind to deal with many yrs down the road.
Hiding it in underground bunkers does not fix the problem, it only hides for so long and at this time there is no known safe and effective way to undo the process that makes those spent rods so highly radioactive.
