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Re: Nuclear batteries

By: lkorrow in CONSTITUTION | Recommend this post (0)
Sat, 26 Nov 11 8:57 PM | 35 view(s)
Boardmark this board | Constitutional Corner 		Msg. 16330 of 21975
(This msg. is a reply to 16327 by monkeytrots)
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Monkey, granted, I don't know all the issues. What I said back then was it should be explored.

Maybe waste is equivalent, as you suggest, in which case it's a problem, but it seems one would need a product that quantifies how much would be required to run a car to determine whether nuclear waste from car batteries can be equated to the mountains of waste generated by power plants. My first thought was these batteries would last virtually forever, so it would be a smaller issue. And that they would figure out how to shield the stuff in autos such that it was safe and wouldn't end up being stolen for dirty bombs. Hmmm, they seemed to be known unknowns. Very Happy

p.s. ignorant question, why is there no explosion during decay?




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Re: Nuclear batteries
By: monkeytrots in CONSTITUTION
Sat, 26 Nov 11 12:14 PM 		Msg. 16327 of 21975

WOWZERS - Talk about a TOTAL MISREPRESENTATION:

Most people probably think of nuclear power that involves fission and the splitting of atoms. But nuclear power can also come from the natural radioactive decay of isotopes such as plutonium-238 -- a much gentler process that has powered nuclear generators aboard spacecraft such as NASA's Cassini probe.

BULLSHIT. The decay of U-238 is EXACTLY the same - fission, which IS the splitting of atoms. Hells bells - that's what the f' 'RADIOACTIVE DECAY' means in the FIRST PLACE.

Linda - HOW CAN YOU POSSIBLY SUPPORT SOMETHING LIKE THIS and be so opposed to 'nuclear reactors' ? Exactly the same thing going on - exactly the same problems with waste.

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