Crisis in Texas

Originally posted by Robtard
Why isn't this done then? I suspect cost?

Why are the materials considered spent after less than 1% of usage?

What ilikecomics said with a splash of special interest lobbying thrown in.

For decades 1 company had an effective monopoly on providing fuel assemblies to almost all traditional reactors. Westinghouse.

Ironically, Fukushima may have been a double edged sword. While it has contributed to the public doubts about the safety of nuclear technology. Something that fossil fuel companies have been extremely quick to pounce on. It's also weakened the iron grip of traditional reactor technology. Reactors are being shut down around the world because of Fukushima and plummeting demand for fuel nearly bankrupted westinghouse and its parent company Toshiba. This has had the secondary effect of opening up a gap in the market to alternate nuclear technologies. The problem is those companies don't have the resources to effectively lobby their potential. That's why development is so slow. The propaganda machine being brought to bear against them from fossil fuel companies is extremely difficult to overcome. They try and succeed in convincing the public and politicians that all nuclear technology should be lumped together and are all equally dangerous.

There's a lot of factors at play though. Fossil fuel companies aren't quick to tell people that burning coal has released vastly more radioactive pollution into the atmosphere than all the nuclear accidents combined simply by virtue of the fact that coal has radioactive nucleides in it.

Thorium isn't new nuclear technology. It was developed at the same time as Uranium and Plutonium reactor technologies in the 1950s. They were favoured over thorium and thus funded by government because of 1 fundamental difference. They could create isotopes for use in nuclear weapons where as thorium technology could not.

Originally posted by jaden_2.0
What ilikecomics said with a splash of special interest lobbying thrown in.

For decades 1 company had an effective monopoly on providing fuel assemblies to almost all traditional reactors. Westinghouse.

Ironically, Fukushima may have been a double edged sword. While it has contributed to the public doubts about the safety of nuclear technology. Something that fossil fuel companies have been extremely quick to pounce on. It's also weakened the iron grip of traditional reactor technology. Reactors are being shut down around the world because of Fukushima and plummeting demand for fuel nearly bankrupted westinghouse and its parent company Toshiba. This has had the secondary effect of opening up a gap in the market to alternate nuclear technologies. The problem is those companies don't have the resources to effectively lobby their potential. That's why development is so slow. The propaganda machine being brought to bear against them from fossil fuel companies is extremely difficult to overcome. They try and succeed in convincing the public and politicians that all nuclear technology should be lumped together and are all equally dangerous.

There's a lot of factors at play though. Fossil fuel companies aren't quick to tell people that burning coal has released vastly more radioactive pollution into the atmosphere than all the nuclear accidents combined simply by virtue of the fact that coal has radioactive nucleides in it.

Thorium isn't new nuclear technology. It was developed at the same time as Uranium and Plutonium reactor technologies in the 1950s. They were favoured over thorium and thus funded by government because of 1 fundamental difference. They could create isotopes for use in nuclear weapons where as thorium technology could not.

Well said, dude.

Originally posted by jaden_2.0
Yes there is. You can utilise spent fuel waste from traditional reactor technologies in molten salt reactors and reduce it's radioactivity from lasting for tens of thousands of years down to decades. Current uranium and plutonium reactors use between 0.5% and 0.8% of the energy in the fuel before they are considered "spent". Molten salt reactors use upwards of 95% of the energy.

These only reduce, not eliminate, waste.

Originally posted by ilikecomics
Depleted uranium only exists because the state made it illegal to reuse, it's 99.9 percent recyclable

Depleted uranium is only a fraction of the waste.

Texas has added 36 more deaths to the official death toll from the February 2021 snow and ice storm, bringing the total to 246 in what was one of the worst natural disasters in the state's history.

The Department of State Health Services disclosed the new total in a report on the storm that was released Friday, and described as the "final report" in an analysis by the department's Disaster Mortality Surveillance Unit.

The deaths occurred between February 11th and June 4th. The figure includes people who were injured in the storm but did not die until later, and also people whose bodies were found after the storm, including during repairs of damaged homes.

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Originally posted by jaden_2.0
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Agreed. You go girl.

Go where?

Originally posted by jaden_2.0
Go where?

To Pornhub?

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There's a lot of factors at play though. Fossil fuel companies aren't quick to tell people that burning coal has released vastly more radioactive pollution into the atmosphere than all the nuclear accidents combined simply by virtue of the fact that coal has radioactive nucleides in it.

After six power plants went down unexpectedly Friday—and with hot weather expected across Texas this weekend—the Electric Reliability Council of Texas on Friday evening is asking consumers to conserve electricity through Sunday.

Texans are asked to set their thermostats to 78 degrees or above between 3:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. this weekend, and to avoid using large appliances at home during those same times.

Many Texans vividly remember February 2021, when millions of people were without power for days in subfreezing temperatures after a combination of cold weather across the state and skyrocketing demand for energy shut down power plants. Hundreds of people died

Republican Governor Greg Abbot had ERCoT withhold the announcment until after business hours on Friday, so no one would have to answer for it.

Texas officials cannot keep the power on, but at least they are against abortion, LGBTQ children, and critical race theory. And the retards clapped!

Instead of freezing to death due to Texas' mismanagement of their power grid, people are going to die of heatstroke this time around.

Abbot needs to go.

Remember when Rick Perry set up a prayer to stop the drought? I guess prayers don't work...

They can just shoot their guns at the goddamn weather.

Iraqis tried that. 😬

Iraq isn't real. The ultra deep state faked it in order to send are troops to re-education camps in CCHHHINA! and now they're all Obamatrons

Originally posted by Blakemore
Remember when Rick Perry set up a prayer to stop the drought? I guess prayers don't work...

Gonna pray that "Chinese hoax" away.

Originally posted by Blakemore
Remember when Rick Perry set up a prayer to stop the drought? I guess prayers don't work...

Republican officials do this so much, that I created a thread for it 15 years ago.

Millions of Texans are without power Tuesday after Hurricane Beryl made its third and final landfall near Matagorda early Monday.

Rainfall brought by Beryl caused near-record flooding in the Houston area, raising some bayous, like the White Oak Bayou and Buffalo Bayou, nearly 24 feet in the span of nine hours Monday. City officials say dangerous driving conditions have prompted road delays, closures, and several rescues.

A heat advisory was issued for Tuesday across most of southeast Texas. Heat index values are expected to rise to around 106 degrees, according to the National Weather Service.