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Originally Posted by JMintzer
Problem is, whenever you mention Nuclear, people think of "The China Syndrome"...
Or The disaster in Japan... Or how to get rid of the spent rods...
What they don't realize is that the newer Generation 4 Reactors are much safer, much more efficient, can use the old spent rods for fuel and the waste only lasts a hundred or so years, rather than millennia, like the older reactors...
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And Three Mile Island it only took 14 years to cleanup “ The cleanup at the Three Mile Island nuclear plant has ended after 14 years with a final puff of radioactive steam from the evaporator used to get rid of contaminated water from the 1979 accident. ... There is contamination in the reactor building, but it's fixed in the walls.Aug 15, 1993”