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Mankind Cannot Do Without Nuclear Power

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By scooby

 Fission reactor concept being developed for small reactors in deep underground boreholes, with claimed cost and safety benefits:


https://deepfission.com/

This is similar in concept to Sakharov's ideas expressed in 1990 after the Chernobyl disaster:

https://time.com/archive/6714880/sakharov-mankind-cannot-do-without-nuclear-power/

"Plainly, mankind cannot renounce nuclear power, so we must find technical means to guarantee its absolute safety and exclude the possibility of another Chernobyl. The best way is international legislation requiring that all new nuclear reactors be sited deep enough underground so that even a worst-case accident would not discharge radioactive substances into the atmosphere."

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Anonymous said…
This reminds me of a certain movie released in the 1960's. It featured Peter Sellers delivering a monologue about how people could live underground, using atomic energy as a power source.
8/25/2024 6:17 AM
Anonymous said…
We are never going to use nuclear power. It is way too risky. You can spin this all you want but the public simply will not allow this. Maybe you could do this in China but it could very well end in disaster. What we need to do is use less energy as no form of energy is truly clean. Sure wind power sounds good but it just ends up being used to build Teslas and so on. They key is not clean energy it is less energy. We all do not need to have cars, we do not need to live in huge empty houses, we do not eat so much meat, we do not to spend so much time on screen. We do not need endless toys. If we do this not only will it save the earth but create a more equity for everyone not just certain groups of people in the US.
8/25/2024 9:29 AM
Anonymous said…
Tell that to China and India. They are big polluters!
8/25/2024 6:13 PM
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