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Nuclear energy - 'The Eyes of Nye'

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Bill Nye explores the ramifications of nuclear energy and its waste.

You might remember Bill Nye from his show Bill Nye the Science Guy on PBS. This is a show somewhat like that but geared for adults (kind of).
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13 responses // Nuclear energy - 'The Eyes of Nye'

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQBey22Td-4&feature=rela...
    Second Part
    CarlosIsDown
  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NITFZ5nSiPU&feature=rela...
    Final part.
    CarlosIsDown
  • excellent! thanks for linking them!
    plusaf
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    very well done. excellent presentation regarding waste. thank you very much for the link. i think both the second and third presentation started to show the real problem in greater detail.

    THIS HAS NEVER BEEN A SUSTAINABLE SOLUTION FOR ENERGY.

    Every American should see this.

    1Eco_Media
  • excellent. Thanks for posting this Carlos.
    twodee
  • Nuclear energy would be nice but it is such a dangerous energy source that it is not a reliable source. It reqiures to much of this planets resourses and distroyes more then it creates.
    maltesetitan
  • @maltesetitan, not so.... coal is much more dangerous and has done MUCH more damage and killed more people. underground coal fires in china today produce as much or more CO2 than all of the motor vehicles in the USA.

    if you're AFRAID of it, just say so, then do some research and get educated. but calling nuclear energy "such a dangerous source" belies France's 70 or 80 percent reliance on it and china's plans to build something like 20 of 'em in the next decade or so.

    maybe technology advanced JUST A LITTLE since Chernobyl and TMI, huh?

    nuclear power can help bridge the gaps until all of your favorite eco-friendly sources ramp up in volume and can compete in price to current methods.
    plusaf
  • storage is an ECO question of the highest order and somehow seems to get lost in the debate.

    This might be easy because it simply passes the problem on to the next 200 generations.
    1Eco_Media
  • @1Eco_Media..... i've suggested for years that most of the waste should be either glassified and/or sealed in stainless steel or whatever [maybe even plastic!] and dropped into the deep-ocean trenches, where it would be inaccessible to anyone and everyone AND mom nature would be continually recycling it back into the mantle of the earth, from whence it came.

    nobody will EVER find a completely acceptable surface or subsurface storage location or process, because there's no place with 100% safe certainty, and no matter how many 9's there are, 99.999999 etc percent will never be enough for someone.

    i think some countries whose offshore waters include deep ocean trenches should be selling dumping rights and making some well-needed money.
    plusaf
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    I've always touted the idea of sealing the nuclear waste in a nice container of Maurice Ward's miraculous "Starlite" plastic which is heatproof even at 10,000°C. Once sealed, paint a nice thank you message on the container and send it off to the Sun (or Proxima Centauri, next closest star), then wait for it to shoot us back a nice warm cheesy grin like in the Raisin Bran commercials. ;-D

    Wait, why am I telling you all this? I'm sabotaging HawkEnergy before it even gets started!

    For more info on the wonder plastic...
    http://itotd.com/articles/653/starlite/
    Hawkmang
  • @Hawkmang.... :) my way just takes some conventional containers and some barges... though it's cheaper, it wouldn't make much profit for me OR you, so i hope you're successful with your alternative, too! :)
    plusaf
  • plusaf, ha ha! Yeah, you're version seems a lot more economically feasible. But as you said, the majority probably wouldn't be to excited about Earth disposal. Maybe I'll contact you with an investment opportunity if I get things off the ground. :-) Who knows, if we get in while the Keynesian utopia keeps manifesting itself we might be able to get blessed with one of those coveted "no-bid" contracts! lol
    Hawkmang
  • Rocket to the sun . . . . if it fails (which there's a high probability) it'll be a pretty horrible disaster.

    Dropping it in the ocean. Seems to be the equivalent of sticking gum underneath a seat. Out of sight out of mind. Except some terrorist hijack deep sea diving equipment and take the gum from the chair. Err. . . go to those deep sea depths and take the containers.

    I think the best bet is to put it in new reactors, such as the ones suggested by the film to make less dangerous/radioactive waste. That, or give it to Putin to lace sushi with the radioactive stuff.
    CarlosIsDown

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