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Hanford Nuclear Waste Vitrification Plant "Too Dangerous"
Noryungi writes "Scientific American reports, in a chilling story, that the Hanford, Washington nuclear waste vitrification treatment plant is off to a bad start. Bad planning, multiple sources of radioactive waste, and leaking containment pools are just the beginning. It's never a good sign when that type of article includes the word 'spontaneous criticality,' if you follow my drift..."
It seems the main problem is that the waste has settled in distinct layers, and has to be piped through corroded old tubes, leading to all sorts of exciting problems (e.g. enough plutonium aggregating to start a reaction).
Only in 'MERICA, land of the believers, is this getting modded down. Because you simply don't get it. (And neither does this poster.) Typical US discussion: Moron vs. retard. NOBODY of you is right!
First of all, it's as if every single one of you morons is completely oblivious to the fact that uranium runs out even before oil.
And that while, yes, nuclear power is safe when done right, it is never done right!
It is done by the cheapest contractor with the most brainwashing lobbyists, and done in the same shittiest way that every other government construction is fucked up.
Finally, we simply don't need nuclear power. You Americans have more dead deserts and wastelands than you could ever fill with solar power towers and pumped storage hydro basins. HVDC lines exist since forever. There simply is no reason to wear down a ultra-rare dangerous resource and use all that tech to keep it going well. No reason apart from greedy industrialists that control the media and politics and wash your tiny little cattletard American brains.
And that is why nuclear power is for utter morons and morons only! It has nothing to do the safety of the general concept! It has to do with Americans being by definition completely blind and obedient retards with no free will, who rage over everything they are told to rage over and actually think they have a opinion of their own, even when they never ever actually check something with their own senses and all they know is being told by their industry opinion makers (and Ritalin, Adderall, Xanax and McDonalds Crapfood of course).
Hippies are pretty dirty.