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**911_993_911** · 03-16-2011, 08:16 PM

Grinding away for decades...

Your personal definition. Decades is a minute number compared to half-life.

producing a tiny (relative to other commercially viable) amount of (admitted vastly toxic but containable) waste. Tiny? What do you mean?

The fuel waste could be reprocessed into more useable fuel (and there are new designs that essentially self reprocess the spend fuel and only need refueling after several decades.) As I said at first, "Not yet."

There have been accidents (what got this conversation going.) But given the time and the number of units in use, very few. Backwards.

I meant - what has sustainable (or green) energy to do with being perfect. Who says green energy is perfect?

Accidents will always happen. Do accidents make wind farms not-green? Can you say the same for nuclear power plants?

03-16-2011, 08:16 PM	#34
911_993_911 Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 574 Senior Member	Grinding away for decades... Your personal definition. Decades is a minute number compared to half-life. producing a tiny (relative to other commercially viable) amount of (admitted vastly toxic but containable) waste. Tiny? What do you mean? The fuel waste could be reprocessed into more useable fuel (and there are new designs that essentially self reprocess the spend fuel and only need refueling after several decades.) As I said at first, "Not yet." There have been accidents (what got this conversation going.) But given the time and the number of units in use, very few. Backwards. I meant - what has sustainable (or green) energy to do with being perfect. Who says green energy is perfect? Accidents will always happen. Do accidents make wind farms not-green? Can you say the same for nuclear power plants?
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