Comments on: Searching for Green Nuclear Waste Disposal http://cleantechnica.com/2009/03/17/searching-for-green-nuclear-waste-disposal/ Clean Tech News & Views: Solar Energy News. Wind Energy News. EV News. & More. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:53:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Ed S. http://cleantechnica.com/2009/03/17/searching-for-green-nuclear-waste-disposal/#comment-5231 Ed S. Wed, 18 Mar 2009 17:25:44 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=2350#comment-5231 Please relegate editorial commentary to your personal blog. We all appreciate the work you do to report on clean technology developments, but lets make sure to keep out your personal views. Also, to see what can happen when a truster reported violates that trust with their readers, see Timothy Noah's peice about Yucca Mountain in Slate: http://www.slate.com/id/2212792/ Reader backlash can be read here, in the comments section: http://fray.slate.com/discuss/forums/2603/ShowForum.aspx?ArticleID=2212792 Please relegate editorial commentary to your personal blog. We all appreciate the work you do to report on clean technology developments, but lets make sure to keep out your personal views.

Also, to see what can happen when a truster reported violates that trust with their readers, see Timothy Noah’s peice about Yucca Mountain in Slate:

http://www.slate.com/id/2212792/

Reader backlash can be read here, in the comments section:

http://fray.slate.com/discuss/forums/2603/ShowForum.aspx?ArticleID=2212792

]]> By: Ed S. http://cleantechnica.com/2009/03/17/searching-for-green-nuclear-waste-disposal/#comment-22485 Ed S. Wed, 18 Mar 2009 17:25:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=2350#comment-22485 Please relegate editorial commentary to your personal blog. We all appreciate the work you do to report on clean technology developments, but lets make sure to keep out your personal views. Also, to see what can happen when a truster reported violates that trust with their readers, see Timothy Noah's peice about Yucca Mountain in Slate: http://www.slate.com/id/2212792/ Reader backlash can be read here, in the comments section: http://fray.slate.com/discuss/forums/2603/ShowForum.aspx?ArticleID=2212792 Please relegate editorial commentary to your personal blog. We all appreciate the work you do to report on clean technology developments, but lets make sure to keep out your personal views.

Also, to see what can happen when a truster reported violates that trust with their readers, see Timothy Noah’s peice about Yucca Mountain in Slate:

http://www.slate.com/id/2212792/

Reader backlash can be read here, in the comments section:

http://fray.slate.com/discuss/forums/2603/ShowForum.aspx?ArticleID=2212792

]]> By: Joffan http://cleantechnica.com/2009/03/17/searching-for-green-nuclear-waste-disposal/#comment-5230 Joffan Tue, 17 Mar 2009 21:26:19 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=2350#comment-5230 Brennan, we have come up with several ways of disposing of or transmuting spent nuclear fuel. The problem is that political decisions are often driven by rhetoric rather than science, and the scaremongers will sometimes win. Swedish disposal scheme: http://www.skb.se/upload/publications/pdf/Djupfor_eng.pdf Brennan, we have come up with several ways of disposing of or transmuting spent nuclear fuel. The problem is that political decisions are often driven by rhetoric rather than science, and the scaremongers will sometimes win.

Swedish disposal scheme:

http://www.skb.se/upload/publications/pdf/Djupfor_eng.pdf

]]> By: Joffan http://cleantechnica.com/2009/03/17/searching-for-green-nuclear-waste-disposal/#comment-22484 Joffan Tue, 17 Mar 2009 21:26:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=2350#comment-22484 Brennan, we have come up with several ways of disposing of or transmuting spent nuclear fuel. The problem is that political decisions are often driven by rhetoric rather than science, and the scaremongers will sometimes win. Swedish disposal scheme: http://www.skb.se/upload/publications/pdf/Djupfor_eng.pdf Brennan, we have come up with several ways of disposing of or transmuting spent nuclear fuel. The problem is that political decisions are often driven by rhetoric rather than science, and the scaremongers will sometimes win.

Swedish disposal scheme:

http://www.skb.se/upload/publications/pdf/Djupfor_eng.pdf

]]> By: nix http://cleantechnica.com/2009/03/17/searching-for-green-nuclear-waste-disposal/#comment-5229 nix Tue, 17 Mar 2009 18:24:51 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=2350#comment-5229 Nuclear waste is not waste. It can, and should be used. Nuclear waste is not waste.

It can, and should be used.

]]> By: nix http://cleantechnica.com/2009/03/17/searching-for-green-nuclear-waste-disposal/#comment-22483 nix Tue, 17 Mar 2009 18:24:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=2350#comment-22483 Nuclear waste is not waste. It can, and should be used. Nuclear waste is not waste.

It can, and should be used.

]]> By: Brennan http://cleantechnica.com/2009/03/17/searching-for-green-nuclear-waste-disposal/#comment-5228 Brennan Tue, 17 Mar 2009 17:42:34 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=2350#comment-5228 Haha I would hate to see what would happen if we did drill all the way to the core and start dumping nuclear waste. I think we can come up with a way to dispose of it responsibly but as of now there doesn't look to be a way. Haha I would hate to see what would happen if we did drill all the way to the core and start dumping nuclear waste. I think we can come up with a way to dispose of it responsibly but as of now there doesn’t look to be a way.

]]> By: Brennan http://cleantechnica.com/2009/03/17/searching-for-green-nuclear-waste-disposal/#comment-22482 Brennan Tue, 17 Mar 2009 17:42:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=2350#comment-22482 Haha I would hate to see what would happen if we did drill all the way to the core and start dumping nuclear waste. I think we can come up with a way to dispose of it responsibly but as of now there doesn't look to be a way. Haha I would hate to see what would happen if we did drill all the way to the core and start dumping nuclear waste. I think we can come up with a way to dispose of it responsibly but as of now there doesn’t look to be a way.

]]> By: Joffan http://cleantechnica.com/2009/03/17/searching-for-green-nuclear-waste-disposal/#comment-5227 Joffan Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:59:14 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=2350#comment-5227 "The thought of endless nuclear waste barely contained inside a seismically-active mountain is enough to give anyone the chills." Well, I don't suppose you'll let the science sway your opinion on that one. But just in case, Yucca Mountain is not especially seismically active, but it does have an interesting advantage in understanding the impact of earthquakes. The nuclear weapons tests at Yucca Flats produced more ground-shaking than the biggest feasible earthquake. The impact on nearby mine tunnels in the same geology as Yucca was observed and incorporated into the knowledge about how such underground structures would react to tremors. The answer is that they survive well. It's slightly unexpected perhaps, but true, that earthquakes do less damage to deep tunnels than to surface structures. I applaud the imagery of a "barely contained" monster, struggling at its feeble chains, but nuclear waste is a mineral, not a Balrog or a virus. Geology can and does accurately predict how it would interact with the other minerals around it, and that does not include making any bid for escape from Yucca. “The thought of endless nuclear waste barely contained inside a seismically-active mountain is enough to give anyone the chills.”

Well, I don’t suppose you’ll let the science sway your opinion on that one. But just in case, Yucca Mountain is not especially seismically active, but it does have an interesting advantage in understanding the impact of earthquakes. The nuclear weapons tests at Yucca Flats produced more ground-shaking than the biggest feasible earthquake. The impact on nearby mine tunnels in the same geology as Yucca was observed and incorporated into the knowledge about how such underground structures would react to tremors. The answer is that they survive well. It’s slightly unexpected perhaps, but true, that earthquakes do less damage to deep tunnels than to surface structures.

I applaud the imagery of a “barely contained” monster, struggling at its feeble chains, but nuclear waste is a mineral, not a Balrog or a virus. Geology can and does accurately predict how it would interact with the other minerals around it, and that does not include making any bid for escape from Yucca.

]]> By: Joffan http://cleantechnica.com/2009/03/17/searching-for-green-nuclear-waste-disposal/#comment-22481 Joffan Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:59:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=2350#comment-22481 "The thought of endless nuclear waste barely contained inside a seismically-active mountain is enough to give anyone the chills." Well, I don't suppose you'll let the science sway your opinion on that one. But just in case, Yucca Mountain is not especially seismically active, but it does have an interesting advantage in understanding the impact of earthquakes. The nuclear weapons tests at Yucca Flats produced more ground-shaking than the biggest feasible earthquake. The impact on nearby mine tunnels in the same geology as Yucca was observed and incorporated into the knowledge about how such underground structures would react to tremors. The answer is that they survive well. It's slightly unexpected perhaps, but true, that earthquakes do less damage to deep tunnels than to surface structures. I applaud the imagery of a "barely contained" monster, struggling at its feeble chains, but nuclear waste is a mineral, not a Balrog or a virus. Geology can and does accurately predict how it would interact with the other minerals around it, and that does not include making any bid for escape from Yucca. “The thought of endless nuclear waste barely contained inside a seismically-active mountain is enough to give anyone the chills.”

Well, I don’t suppose you’ll let the science sway your opinion on that one. But just in case, Yucca Mountain is not especially seismically active, but it does have an interesting advantage in understanding the impact of earthquakes. The nuclear weapons tests at Yucca Flats produced more ground-shaking than the biggest feasible earthquake. The impact on nearby mine tunnels in the same geology as Yucca was observed and incorporated into the knowledge about how such underground structures would react to tremors. The answer is that they survive well. It’s slightly unexpected perhaps, but true, that earthquakes do less damage to deep tunnels than to surface structures.

I applaud the imagery of a “barely contained” monster, struggling at its feeble chains, but nuclear waste is a mineral, not a Balrog or a virus. Geology can and does accurately predict how it would interact with the other minerals around it, and that does not include making any bid for escape from Yucca.

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