Going Nuclear
The Naked Scientists Podcast
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Nuclear Energy
If nuclear energy is going to have a renaissance, we really must destroy waste before we store it. We are not going to be able to get a hundred jaka mountains if the nuclear energy were to take off. That's political as well as a physical impossibility. I've got another question for you. Heres fodesh from martin kilgore. Just quickly, can it be used as an energy sourcer, as a gothermal energy source? Yes, it can be. But when an octinactinite fissions inside a nuclear actor, it produces about 200 maga m v energy. A large amount of energy in a single reaction in anything that you might be able
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