This is kind of off-topic but it's something I always wondered about. They want to close coal-fired power plants due to coal being a fossil fuel that will eventually run out. Isn't the radioactive material, uranium, plutonium, etc, mined out of the ground as well? Couldn't you say one day our earthly supply of it will eventually run out? I'm sure they get more bang for their buck (lol) with nuclear power, dont know how long the material lasts but I'm sure a lot longer than a ton of coal.
If one were to use 3 stage breeder reactors, (prototypes have been made, but no one is allowed to build them in the US, and elsewhere, they frown on it, because of weaponization possibility) where you start with Uranium, then it becomes Plutonium, which can be run again, and then becomes, I believe deuterium, not sure on that one, and that is used in the medical field, currently they have to EXPEND energy to CREATE this, for the medical field, whereas, in that case, it would be a byproduct, and the beauty of it is Deuterium only has a half life of 200 years, not millions like Uranium/plutonium which is what the REAL issue with nuclear power is, how to store the waste for millions of years without contamination. Basically this issue though is moot because of these more modern reactors.
Most of the reactors online now were designed in the 1940's, stuff they could build today (If they were allowed to) would be many times more efficient, safer, and produce pretty much ZERO waste, much like the coal plants which could be modernized, but since the EPA won't allow new ones to be built, they will sit there with the old ones. Again, the gas refineries, not one has been built since the 1970's, all of our shortages are due to refining capacity, not availability of oil. These shortages people speak of are artificial.
There's even evidence that old oil wells are filling back up, if it's a fossil fuel, that will be gone some day, why do we keep finding more and more, and why do old wells that have been sucked dry keep having oil found in them (conspiracies abound about the feds forcing people to cap them purposely so they don't find out that they fill back up later)..
HRPC is very right about it being $$$ and control. Basically, if they can move everyone into a city, and force them to all ride the bus or the train, they can also control where and when they go..
CONTROL.. Bottom line.
Check out the CANDU reactor, the Canadians built, they actually have been taking old spent Uranium rods, and reusing them in this reactor, basically everyone wins, older nuke plants get rid of some waste, they have a pretty much free source of fuel, and the end product is less dangerous than what they began with.
As for running out of nuclear fuel, well, yes that is possible, but you must remember that our sun is one big nuclear reaction, it will eventually run out of fuel, but not for a few hundred million years give or take..
HOLY runon sentences batman!!! I am only leaving them like this so you all can see the stream of consciousness my thinking bursts in... Wow.. Somehow I make sense of it all in my head...
but yes i agree it realy is a scam war on drugs war on emisions same goal different revenue stream thats all
