tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4136626590097801169.post3833778476201182318..comments2024-01-10T11:19:56.456-08:00Comments on What Is Sustainable: Too Hot to TouchWhat Is Sustainablehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10227382786082159733noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4136626590097801169.post-11998287757964044852016-12-10T11:00:50.033-08:002016-12-10T11:00:50.033-08:00Trump may revive the Yucca Mountain project.Trump may revive the <a href="http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/magazine/physicstoday/news/10.1063/PT.5.8197" rel="nofollow">Yucca Mountain project</a>.What Is Sustainablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10227382786082159733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4136626590097801169.post-6084420324671986722015-02-07T16:21:32.458-08:002015-02-07T16:21:32.458-08:00The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has a webpa...The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has a webpage and video that describes <br /><a href="http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/fact-sheets/decommissioning.html" rel="nofollow">the decommissioning process</a> for dummies.<br /><br />Luckily, help is on the way. When President Bachmann takes office in 2017, I'm sure that nuclear waste will be her number one priority. Uff da!What Is Sustainablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10227382786082159733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4136626590097801169.post-123290871837290202015-02-07T06:36:34.867-08:002015-02-07T06:36:34.867-08:00"Too cheap to meter" nuclear electricity..."Too cheap to meter" nuclear electricity never made any sense, was never cheap (to build or operate), has never been "carbon-free" nor safe, and was designed primarily as a way to justify the enormous public investment that went into the Manhattan Project (yet another civilian spin-off from war technology).<br /><br />One of the most successful citizen rebellions in US history, however, was the grass-roots non-violent anti-nuclear power movement (in which I played a leadership role), which successfully shut down new construction in the US for 40 years. Of course, that did nothing to shutter the existing plants, which are now being slowly decommissioned at great cost.<br /><br />It is possible to complete decommissioning in a lot less then 60 years, as the first large-scale commercial nuke - Yankee Rowe in western Massachusetts - which operated from 1960 to 1992, was fully decommissioned to a green field in five years. (I also indirectly assisted with that process by training an on-site high-angle rescue team, when I served as Emergency Management Coordinator in an abutting Vermont town.)<br /><br />All that remains are 16 100-ton dry cask high-level waste storage containers, which cost $8 million per year for security, and with no prospects for ever leaving the site.Riversonghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05413657075902226702noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4136626590097801169.post-27660331113050527252015-02-07T04:24:26.233-08:002015-02-07T04:24:26.233-08:00Yep.Yep.Brianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14037441375913788888noreply@blogger.com