SunriseChampion
Senior Member
You people are just goading me into a comment so I can be threatened to be banned - no thanks.
Don't worry mate, you know I've got your back. Just don't say anything too silly. <3
You people are just goading me into a comment so I can be threatened to be banned - no thanks.
We really should return to nuclear as a large source of power, at least in the interim. There are much safer designs available (salt-cooled reactor cores for instance) that are nearly impossible to melt down. We should also look at SMR (Small/Medium Reactors) in/closer to urban areas, which would cut transmission loss, be overall safer, have a cheaper and faster upfront setup, and be more environmentally friendly with a coolant system that doesn't need to be dumped into local waterways.
I can't be sure, honestly.
I wasn't in the room, and my closest source would be at least once removed.
I've heard different reasons given.
These included:
-The cost of upgrading the transmission corridor (in my opinion this is a poor reason as it was still far more cost effective that the latest Darlington rehab)
- The desire for to nominally maintain full self-supply capability within Ontario.
and
-Saving the nuclear industry, in Ontario (I find this one most believable, but still highly questionable
I'm not sure those systems are ready for commercialization, but could be mistaken.
I can only imagine the howls if a nuclear reaction was proposed anywhere "in/closer to urban areas".
Gen IV test reactors are being rolled out across the globe starting in 2020, so 2030 for new reactors doesn’t seem too far off.
Y’know, no one seems to give a toss when various Fleet Weeks happen and a dozen small enriched uranium reactors are parked right next to Manhattan, San Francisco, Seattle, Los Angeles and other cities.
People crow alllllll the time about things that pose little danger; cell towers, GMOs, vaccines. It doesn’t make them right.
Gen IV test reactors are being rolled out across the globe starting in 2020, so 2030 for new reactors doesn’t seem too far off.
Y’know, no one seems to give a toss when various Fleet Weeks happen and a dozen small enriched uranium reactors are parked right next to Manhattan, San Francisco, Seattle, Los Angeles and other cities.
People crow alllllll the time about things that pose little danger; cell towers, GMOs, vaccines. It doesn’t make them right.
Are they? That sounds awfully optimistic.
…and of interest, we have a stake in it too:(Updated May 2019)
- An international task force is sharing R&D to develop six nuclear reactor technologies for deployment between 2020 and 2030. Four are fast neutron reactors.
In May 2019 Terrestrial Energy, the Canadian developer of a molten salt reactor, became the first private sector company to join GIF.
Yes, and I see my local puppy dog MPP waving his flippers. Nauseating, and I will tell him to his face, not that it will change anything.
The clapping seals are back again.
The clapping seals are back again.
According to the Globe, Doug Ford's clapping seal circus has wasted 231 million dollars of taxpayers' money on cancelling green energy initiatives.
Yet another myopically minded clusterfuck that Burloak can twist himself into a pretzel attempting to justify.
According to the Globe, Doug Ford's clapping seal circus has wasted 231 million dollars of taxpayers' money on cancelling green energy initiatives.
Yet another myopically minded clusterfuck that Burloak can twist himself into a pretzel attempting to justify.
But gas plants, of course.
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