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| Nuclear Energy; Limitless clean fuel source, or WMD? | |
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| Topic Started: Jul 1 2008, 11:42 PM (159 Views) | |
| GraySnake182 | Jul 1 2008, 11:42 PM Post #1 |
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What are everyone's views on man's ability to harness the energy created by nuclear fusion? Is it right to use such energy, or in its discovery, did man merely doom himself to ultimate destruction? |
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| kisskissbangbang | Jul 3 2008, 09:34 PM Post #2 |
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Considering the fact we've only got 50 years of oil and gas left and about a 100 of coal [i think]we're going to have to rely on nuclear, especially when the power output is so much greater than the amount required to run it. Isnt it something like a 1kg of uranium produces 20 trillion jules which with coal reuqires 1500kg? People who oppose nuclear power plants are just hippies or rely solely on renewables. So nuclear=good [if used correctly] Edited by kisskissbangbang, Jul 3 2008, 09:35 PM.
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| Bodrul | Jul 4 2008, 01:47 PM Post #3 |
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nuclear energy produces more power out of less natural resources (Uranium) and requires less space and produces less polution then coal and oil plants. and unlike wind and solar doesnt require vast areas of land. only downside is the waste thats produced which can take decades to disintergrate |
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| Roy Campbell | Jul 4 2008, 06:46 PM Post #4 |
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There is a HUGE difference between Nuclear Fission and Nuclear Fusion. We are currently using Nuclear Fission so I am all for that but Fusion is something we do not yet have the technology to harvest. Scientists believe that they will have a fully working efficient Fusion reactor up and running in around 20 years time - as long as there are no nasty effects which they haven't yet found, I'll be all for that as well. They need to get their act sorted out with the whole Nuclear waste thing though, they are doing a shit job of it at the moment. |
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| kisskissbangbang | Jul 4 2008, 09:56 PM Post #5 |
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Well radioactive waste is incredibly difficult to dispose of you know. Just throwing it out there thats all. |
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| Splitter Snake | Jul 4 2008, 10:06 PM Post #6 |
 
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Too be honest, I doubt I'm around in 50+ years, so I don't really care...sad, but true. |
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| dJdC | Jul 5 2008, 07:28 PM Post #7 |
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doesn't mean you wont feel the effects from it before we run out. Were feeling the effects now. Imagine how bad it will be in 10 years if we don't find a solution. |
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| kisskissbangbang | Jul 5 2008, 08:34 PM Post #8 |
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Wait so just because it MIGHT not personally effect you, you dont care about what actions our countries take in providing fuel, one of the main forces that drives our economy? Spoken like an ignorant kid. |
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| Solid Spartan | Jul 14 2008, 11:41 PM Post #9 |
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It's both. When handled correctly, it's a clean and efficient fuel source. But one wrong (or right, in the case of certain dictators) move and it jumps straight to WMD. I'm all for clean and limitless energy sources here, but surely we can come up with something which doesn't have a 25,000-year radioactive downside? 
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| Burlynate | Jul 22 2008, 02:52 AM Post #10 |
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nuclear power plants are last years technology fast neutron reactors are where the future is -fast neutron reactors can run off of processed(?) spent nuclear fuel -fast neutron reactors reduce the radioactivity from about 10,000 years to a few hundred http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/inf98.html |
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| Solid Spartan | Jul 29 2008, 02:23 AM Post #11 |
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That's good news.
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| GraySnake182 | Aug 1 2008, 01:00 AM Post #12 |
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Nuclear energy is still being perfected. Obviously, its potential as a weapon is nearly limitless. The waste is an unfortunate side effect produced from using it correctly, but that is being worked on. Imagine the potential of "dark matter" in a purified state resulting from nuclear fusion. A gram of pure "dark matter" has the energy yield equivalent of 2kg of uranium when detonated, and can put out enough energy in its purest form to power New York City for three days. That is ONE GRAM of "Dark Matter" or "antimatter" as it is sometimes called, which is created by nuclear fusion, and also results from atomic collisions. |
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| Burlynate | Aug 1 2008, 05:25 AM Post #13 |
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dark matter =/= antimatter |
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| OuterJaccob | Aug 1 2008, 10:18 AM Post #14 |
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I don't like the idea of it, I was only about 10 but I remember Chernobyl like it was yesterday, it was a result of human error, which is something no amount of technology can account for. |
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