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I need to write a persasive research essay and I want to do it on new nuclear power technology and why more funding is needed in this area.....

does /sci/ have some suggjestions on where I should read up on this sort of stuff?

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"suggestions

>> No.4022904

THORIUM

GOOGLE IT

>> No.4022915

>>4022889
Because the only other option is fossil fuels.

And because Nuclear power is the safest energy source.

>> No.4022916

While the dangers of nuclear power are already incredibly overblown you should look into thorium pebble bed reactors, all the power, a fraction of the size, far less danger.

>> No.4022918

>>4022915
what about solar, wind, hydroelectric, thermal....

>> No.4022926

>>4022889
http://energyfromthorium.com/
for the LFTR folks, of which I am one.

>> No.4022927

>>4022918
Check the data, nuclear power kills less people per TWh than any other power source; including solar, wind, etc.

>> No.4022930

>>4022918
>what about solar,
Too expensive at current rates, though maybe solar thermal, but I can't find any good numbers on that when I look. Photovoltaic is just way too bad right now, and far more polluting than nuclear.

>wind,
lol

>hydroelectric,
Not enough natural rivers to supply the demand we need.

>thermal....
Like geothermal? See hydro.

>> No.4022938

>>4022927


well yeah, because those other alternitives cant power shit compared to a nuclear power plant.

I know it is safer than fossil fuels though

>> No.4022943

>>4022938
Nuclear power has also killed fewer people in its entire 50+ years of existence than solar and wind combined in their 20+ years of existence.

Suck it greenfags.

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>>4022889
Here you go.

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>>4022969

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>>4022972

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>>4022977

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>>4022983

>> No.4023075

Uh so why aren't these being built?

>> No.4023087

>>4022930
>hes never herd of coastal turbines.

>> No.4023088

>>4023075
Paper's recently declassified, NOOKS ARE SCARY, nobombs. Something like that.

>> No.4023103

Nuclear power is bad for the environment. I don't want my children having extra limbs. Nuclear powerplants are bad and radiation is bad. Nuclear power is dangerous, what if it blows up? I've seen the green glowing chemicals and I know they are bad and bad radiation uranium smoke coming from those big smokestacks is bad.

I have a degree in Sociology so I'm not dumb and I want to protect the environment so I'm a vegans and I'm the 99% and the 1% wants to build nuclear powerplants. Nuclear is a word that means birth defects.

>> No.4023146

Krautchan had thread today on this.

Short Story Short

>German's were called out for being faggots.
>Their half assed measures to satisfy hippies
>Their Russian oil dependence
>France having to increase reactor output to keep German grid up.
>Cold Shut Down soon to be achieved in Fukushima NPP and oh wow its fucking nothing.

>> No.4023148

>discussing nuclear power with two other physics majors
>business management major bimbo who is friends with one of them comes over
>pronounces it "Nuke-ya-ler"
>Turn 360 degrees and walk away

>> No.4023187

>>4023087
Again too expensive.

>> No.4023200

humanity will soon be trying to figure out what do about all the obsolete power plants and the massive amounts of waste. What do? They think, hope tripfags on 4chan enjoyed creating this nuclear waste. Hope 20th century had fun now who r we gonna call?

>> No.4023216

>0/10

>>4023200
Areva for decades has reprocessed spent material into fissionable material.

Thru French chemistry magic.

>> No.4023217

Lets not forget the Traveling wave reactor being brought to us by Bill gates. God i hope that thing works.

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>>4023217
>check this out
>Nuclear transmutation

>> No.4023310

>>4023103
2/10
Just because some people actually believe this. :(