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angrychair

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34. Hanford

Reply to stopdiggin (Reply #31)

Sat Mar 28, 2026, 11:29 PM

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Savannah River, Fukushima and Chernobyl all say differently.

The problem with nuclear is that is perfectly safe and great until it isn't.
One really bad day at a nuclear waste site or reactor could easily kill thousands, potentially hundreds of thousands, of people.
Make millions more sick and suffer for decades with illnesses and cancers.

The arrogance and audacity to blithely imply I'm misinformed when I live 50 miles from Hanford and it is a real and significant risk because we are literally paying billions to clean it up and secure it's waste for thousands of years.

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We may not need any stinking oil after all.. [View all] multigraincracker Saturday OP

Someone please explain how this doesn't break the first law of thermodynamics. harumph Saturday #1

it is harnessing a 'second' source of energy, in addition to the solar stopdiggin Saturday #2

Not if it's harnessing solar power, which is infinite as long as we have a source FakeNoose Saturday #7

'solar power' doesn't do anything like 'revising' thermodynamics ... stopdiggin Saturday #30

I have no science background Eddie Haskell 60 Saturday #9

No, that is thermodynamics. mr715 Saturday #18

cool Eddie Haskell 60 Saturday #21

I'm not buying any of this. To start with, there is no such thing as 100% efficency in any realm. flashman13 Saturday #12

The 130% number being bandied about in the article refers to quantum efficiency Shermann Saturday #16

I am always raising my eyebrows James48 Saturday #3

Why? mr715 Saturday #19

It isn't 130% efficient if it is 2 energy harvesting events. mr715 Saturday #4

I discussed this badly misinterpreted wishful thinking case in another thread on the topic. NNadir Saturday #5

No angrychair Saturday #6

Mercury in the exhaust smoke. BidenRocks Saturday #8

That is appalling and dangerous nonsense. When confronted... NNadir Saturday #10

I was just using it as an example angrychair Saturday #28

Again, the question is, did radioactivity from nuclear power plants kill as many people in 70 years as died in the... NNadir Saturday #32

So by your logic angrychair Saturday #33

poster said absolutely nothing of the sort stopdiggin 18 hrs ago #39

After coal is burned fly ash has to be disposed of. What goes into the air stays in the air. twodogsbarking Saturday #11

Coal ash has radioactivity and heavy metals IbogaProject Saturday #14

More people have died in coal processing, burning than nuclear. mr715 Saturday #15

Nonsense Disaffected Saturday #24

Coal's main byproduct is CO2 NickB79 Saturday #29

you could not be more completely misinformed - or wrong about a particular subject. stopdiggin Saturday #31

Hanford angrychair Saturday #34

Trade offs for any decision. mr715 Yesterday #37

No. They do not. (say differently) stopdiggin 19 hrs ago #38

Isn't this a peer review journal? multigraincracker Saturday #13

Its a popsci distillation. mr715 Saturday #17

No. I accessed the paper on which this pop misinformation is based. NNadir Saturday #23

It's not a perpetual motion machine swong19104 Saturday #20

Link to the actual scientific paper mentioned in the press report JHB Saturday #22

The paper if not talking about energy conversion efficiency. Disaffected Saturday #25

Wait!?! H2O Man Saturday #27

Recommended. H2O Man Saturday #26

Violates the first Law of Thermodynamics Smells like BS Melon Yesterday #35

Whatever bankrupts the wretched Saudi oligarchs, the better! Initech Yesterday #36