Literally, mutated people and waste is all it's bad for.

Discuss the best energy alternative.

Because bathing in radiation wont give me super powers.

Currently, Nuclear power is the most efficient (at least until renewable energy get a tad more research), there are only 3 major problems with it atm, being waste management, risk of meltdown and weaponisation.

Waste management's a problem, particularly for the UK where we don't even have a proper nuclear waste disposal site, we just encase it in concrete and dump it in the Irish Sea or at Sellafield IIRC, whereas the US and (Norway or Sweden I think?) have or are developing specially designed nuclear dump sites to last hundreds of years while the waste decays.

The risk of meltdown, especially since Chernobyl has been massively reduced with automated shutdown systems in place and proper training and fallback plans should a reactor uncontrollably reach critical mass. The Fukuishima plant is the only recent major incident, and that was down to poor handling of other hazards (which, for Japan I thought would be ready for the occasional tsunami...), rather than a fault with the operation of the reactor itself.

For places like Iran which props up from time to time, weaponisation of the nuclear fuel is a possibility, but you see how it's very unlikely to actually happen because of international politics (US imposing massive sanctions on Iran and NK as well), plus more recent designs for reactors reduce the chance of the fuel being enriched in the process, as well as possible development to Thorium Nuclear reactors which other than some other alleged benefits, isn't possible to be used as a weapon.

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Oh gasai you qt

Stop coming on to me.

Still think that renewable energy should be given more research instead of nuclear, especially since dealing with nuclear waste is kind of a serious problem

The risk of meltdown, especially since Chernobyl has been massively reduced with automated shutdown systems in place and proper training and fallback plans should a reactor uncontrollably reach critical mass. The Fukuishima plant is the only recent major incident, and that was down to poor handling of other hazards (which, for Japan I thought would be ready for the occasional tsunami...), rather than a fault with the operation of the reactor itself.

On the note of Fukushima, look how well that was contained and handled utilizing decades old equipment and structures, and then remember that a modern plant is exponentially safer. That seems pretty goddamn safe to me.

Shame we don't have any modern plants... Thanks Clinton.

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The best energy alternative would involve anti-matter reactors. But since they exist only in theory;- there is no best energy alternative. Nuclear power is LITERALLY the best power we can have at the moment (fusion not fission).

fusion is a long way from providing anyone w/ power unless of course you believe the stuff coming out of the skunkworks now.

Quote from: DAS B00T DAS B00T on May 01, 2015, 06:11:44 PM

On the note of Fukushima, look how well that was contained and handled

This is supposed to be sarcasm right

No. For what happened and what was available, it went better than expected.