High level nuclear waste will remain on site in the cooling pool and then moved to dry cask storage.
On Wednesday, a little over forty years after the Three Mile Island (unit 2) nuclear disaster, Exelon announced that the remaining Three Mile Island nuclear reactor (unit 1) will be shut down by September 30, 2019. According to Exelon, Three Mile Island “has been losing money for years“. Nuclear power can’t compete with cheaper natural gas and renewables, points out NPR. See: “Three Mile Island Nuclear Plant To Close, Latest Symbol Of Struggling Industry” May 8, 2019 3:34 PM ET JEFF BRADY https://www.npr.org/2019/05/08/721514875/three-mile-island-nuclear-plant-to-close-latest-symbol-of-struggling-industry
However, the area will not be out of danger. High level nuclear waste will remain on site in the cooling pool and then moved to dry cask storage. Currently they plan to delay dismantlement (SAFSTOR).
Due to the current “rip and ship” (EnergySolutions) and “proto-prompt” (Holtec-SNC Lavalin = CDI) focus on speed, SAFSTOR appears the better alternative. The delay…
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Thanks for getting the word out! 🙂
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Holtec is not an american company. They are importing Hi level nuclear waste fro France and Japan to be dangerously stored in New Mexico , West Texas and idaho. Perry the doe sec is getting millions in kickbacks on the sweatheart deals. How much worse can it get? Wait and see
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What ever happened to Yucca mountain in Nevada, Gloria? When I left the US, there was massive local opposition against it. Did local residents manage to kill the project?
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Trump and perry at it again, to open it up. Huge aquifer there. Much increased seismic activity
Even republicans in Nevada, are damnned afraid to sponsor any more nuclear waste in nevada since a whole valley of it blewup, there a few years ago. Perry and trump dont care. Trump sent several tons of plutonium to nevada, wo asking. Could be the start of a rebellion hotspot, against governor-crook-bi-goodhair and trumpo. They have no scruples and may just force it. They are pushing it hard. I was there in 1985 . Lots of pissed off downwinders , natives and young peoplw.
Murica should be ashamed.
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They have the deep drilling technology to put High level nuclear waste a mile underground in safe strata away from aquifers!
To put waste with cesium137 cobalt60
strontium 90 plutonium etc a mile undergorund in solid strata dr bramhall is the only way to do it unless they could get it off the earth which is impossible .
They are too cheap to do deep drilling they use for fracking oil and natural gas to get rid of manmade hilevel radionuclide that cannot be stored safely above ground.
To busy building new nuclear weapons . Too busy spending trillions on military, with war and such.
All of the 99 reactors in america generate 20,000 tons of hi level nuclear waste a year.
All nuclear reactors, are highly fossil fuel dependent. That goes from mining to purifucation to hauling plutonium or uranium to reactors.
The making of the fuel and bombs makes another 100,000 tons of nuclear waste yearly.
There have been severe increases in hurricanes flooding and earthquakes in murica recently. All reactors in america are older than 30 years old cracked unstable outdated and anyone of them could go fukushima style which would effect u in new zealand. The fallout of a thousnad bombs from the cores and hundred of tons of hilevel radionuclides in the used fuel pools burning up.
Trump and perry have just totally deregulated supervision of these monstrositites since they came to power. Why subsidize them to generate millions of tons of nuclear waste that is destroying the human genome? Waste that has to be sequestered properly.
Mostly nuclear reactors in New Jersey, The Gulf Coast, The southeast are used for oil refineries and chemical plants.
Nuclear reactors in america are not even reliable enough for residential power.
All of the backup diesel generators for Nuclear reactors in america, are old and unreliable.
Many rarely work when tested, like the ones at fukushima.
Each nucler reactor has to have a power source to supply its cooling system or it will meltdown.
The beatup old, outdated nuclear reactors, only supply about 20 percent of electricity in america. Why not phase nuclear reactors out and, shift to renewables and alternative forms of energy?
End the insanity. I guarentee u yucca will not fly. More propaganda lies and boondogle. Better than just parking millions of tons of the shit outdoors on pads or, putting it in barrels in shallow graves or, dumping it into the ocean though.
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they have to ahut down the old reactors hwre or any 2 or 3 of the 99 here will go fukushima style soon. They are evwn impossible expensive to build new ones anymore because of the construction costs such irrationality nonsense and stupidity
i dont know if u get it
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The hilevel waste from nuclear reactors, is the most dengerous material possible. Full of Plutonium isotopes. Various Uranium isotopes, cesium isotopes , of strontium 90, cobalt60, long lasting radioodine etc.
If a person came withing a 30 or 40 feet of 100 pounds of unshielded-used reactor rods it will kill u in 30 minutes.
The rods must be cooled from residual heat from fission but, can still generate decay heat from the nature of the radionuclides accumulated in them as fission byproducts . The hilevel, waste radionuclidess , are really much more dangerous than the original uranium that decayed into them , in the process of fissioning. They have lied and brainwashed us so much.
The hilevel reactor nuclear waste is highly reactive. It generates gas and its own heat. It is potentially explosive if not stored properly if there is such a thing.
THE PLUTONIUM IN IT IS VERY PYROGENIC. That means its is very volatile and can catch fire easily.
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