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The most sustainable way to do nuclear power is to close the fuel cycle by recycling spent fuel. Nearly all long lived radio isotopes - uranium, plutonium, americium and other actinides are separated from the spent fuel and recycled into new fuel. The remaining waste comprised of the fission...

david666, Spent nuclear fuel must be kept in tanks with circulating water for some period (I think something like 2-3 years) after being removed from a reactor to allow it to cool off. During this time highly radioactive fission products are greatly reduced by natural radioactive decay. After...

And a tsunami that would obliterate every city, town, village and sign of human habitation around entire Pacific Rim. In such an apocalyptic event, the risk of radiation would be small beer. Does this remind you of the Japanese earthquake? In such a scenario, we might be very glad of any...

Coal fired power stations are responsible for hundreds of theousands of premature deaths and heart attacks every year world wide due to air pollution. Harm to public heath by nuclear is not in the same league - nuclear is much safer, even including Chernobyl.

Err.... not quite. Solar and wind are relatively safe. Nat gas and hydroelectric are not. If we could ever get the full statistics, I'm certain that you would find that deaths and injuries due to natural gas fires and explosions in the Japan earthquake will far exceed casualties from the...

[/b] A lot more than you, it would seem. [/b] The explosions were not in the reactors or the reactor containment. They were hydrogen explosions in the outer building shell in an area used for cranes and so forth used for handling fuel rods during reactor maintenance and refueling. The...

Estimate of tsunami height at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant revised upward to 14 ms http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/breaking-news/japan-nuclear-plant-crippled-by-14-metre-wave/story-fn3dxity-1226025962195

fanews, No reactors "melted". Stop talking crap.

What piezoe said. When the dust settles, one of the things that will probably come out will be some failures of regulation in Japan. Apparently the plant at Fukushima Daiichi was required by the regulator to withstand a tsunami of 5.7 metres. But the estimated height was 10 metres. At...

"Woodsmoke in the urban environment is a major source of aggravation and ill health for many people, especially those with allergy or chemical sensitivity. The toxicity of wood smoke is well known, it contains many carcinogenic substances such as aldehydes, dioxin, polycyclic aromatic...

The only thing you have got right is that people have a right to the truth. The rest of it is scare mongering garbage. Mindless panic is seldom productive. The facts are that radiation levels outside the evacuation zone (and even inside the evacuation zone and away from the plant) are in...

A 1 GW solar power plant capable of baseload operation (by the use of molten salt storage) in an agreeable climate such as Spain would cover something like 100 sq kms. Where would Japan find the space to put 50 or more of these things? Considering the Japanese climate they would need to be...

Don't forget the candles, because that's what you would be using when the sun's not shining. Solar will have it's uses, but like other renewables except hydro it in not reliable.

Not as yet and quite possibly not at all.

bearice, Arne't you the idiot that was telling us not so long ago on another thread that a full on nuclear war would not be so bad and the forests would regrow from the ashes? A bit of a change to obsessing about a single atom of plutonium isn't it?

False Radiation Rumors Run Rampant "There is no doubt that what is happening at the Fukushima Nuclear plant in Japan is alarming. I’ve even seen reliable reports that one of the containment vessels may have been damaged in an explosion early Tuesday Japan time. Unfortunately, some people...

As has been pointed out in the most authoritative studies of the Chernobyl disaster one of the worst heath effects has been anxiety, fear and depression, where those who received some radiation dose, no matter how small, vastly over estimate any possible harm that may come to them. It seems this...

The fact that it is technically different is exactly what is relevant. Running around like a headless chicken and screaming "radiation" tells us nothing at all.

The Ram, "Although radiation escaping from a nuclear power plant catastrophe can increase the risk for many cancers and other health problems, stress, anxiety and fear ended up in many ways being a much greater long-term threat to health and well-being in Chernobyl, Three Mile Island and...

Don't be silly.