Originally posted by: Hayabusarider
So A1.
Can you yet answer the question? How are nukes inherently superior to wave generators?
I think you ought to know by now that I dont come here yelling that the X-Files has much to do with reality. This has been in the scientific journals. We don't have conspiracy, we have vested interests and inertia. Think Westinghouse, GE et al is going to throw all their research and technology away? In the real business world, it is usually preferable to kill the competition than to invest billions in new technology. Much cheaper.Think corporations work for the consumer? Hell no. Was it Cormelius Vanderbilt who said "Public be damned, I work for the stockholders?" Well it was someone like him. In any case this has been my experience with upper management in corporations I have known and dealt with. You do have a point with the EPA. There is always something they do not like, but do you think they love radioactive waste?
Speaking of which.
You have tons and tons of plutonium. How do you store it until it is safe?
First off let's look at this realistically. No corporation is going to get anywhere near a beach with a project like this. The enviro nuts will explode and the EPA will crush it.
Secondly, no one can get a nuclear plant built in the US, yet new power stations are needed. Were this a viable (read: profitable) option, I have no doubt that the large energy concerns would invest in it.
Finally, Yucca Mountain is a fine place to store this crap until we find better uses for it, and until we develop better sources of energy. Hell, in less than a quarter of the time Yucca Mountain is guaranteed to remain safe (thousands of years), I'll bet we'll have found a way to neutralize or reuse the stuff. We're already reusing plutonium that just a few years ago was thought to be waste.