Most of the posts about clean, low CO2 emission and cost fail to take into account the fact that it's quite a lot of work to refine nuclear fuel (U-325) out of garden-variety uranium. This processing does generate CO2. Storage of waste and doing something about nuclear power plants is also going to cost in both money and CO2. Both mostly in hindsight, but i haven't heard of those costs being estimated and factored in.
And with burying it in the seabed it seems like all you need is a ship, a few special casings and a restraining order against anyone who is suspected of having ties to greenpeace, but it's impossible to check up on simple things like: are there hair fractures in my casings? How is the casing material holding up under nuclear conditions? (radiation can cause structural weaknesses, especially neutron radiation)
Anyway, the supply of nuclear material available isn't very large. One of the estimates for the amount of fuel left in easlily mineable conditions would give us nuclear power for some 50 years or so. It's not exactly a sustainable solution. Why not switch to a bit more longer term solution right away? Peak sun is in my personal guess still not for another 3.5 billion years.
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Most of the posts about clean, low CO2 emission and cost fail to take into account the fact that it's quite a lot of work to refine nuclear fuel (U-325) out of garden-variety uranium. This processing does generate CO2. Storage of waste and doing something about nuclear power plants is also going to cost in both money and CO2. Both mostly in hindsight, but i haven't heard of those costs being estimated and factored in.
And with burying it in the seabed it seems like all you need is a ship, a few special casings and a restraining order against anyone who is suspected of having ties to greenpeace, but it's impossible to check up on simple things like: are there hair fractures in my casings? How is the casing material holding up under nuclear conditions? (radiation can cause structural weaknesses, especially neutron radiation)
Anyway, the supply of nuclear material available isn't very large. One of the estimates for the amount of fuel left in easlily mineable conditions would give us nuclear power for some 50 years or so. It's not exactly a sustainable solution. Why not switch to a bit more longer term solution right away? Peak sun is in my personal guess still not for another 3.5 billion years.