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Pastimes : Advanced Micro Devices - Off Topic
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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (823)2/25/2007 1:52:05 PM
From: combjelly   of 1141
 
"Even if you secured nuclear power plants underground, there is also the problem of securing the transport of uranium from the mines to the plants."

Umm, what is a terrorist supposed to do to a plant? Cracking the containment vessel is a non-trivial exercise. It would take more, much more than crashing an airliner into it. And it is unlikely that any terrorist, domestic or otherwise, is going to be able to get their hands on something with more energy than that.

Ok, so lets assume that a terrorist group is able to overcome all the hurdles and get their hands on reactor grade uranium. What do they do with it? They'd need to get it from around 20% to around 90% or more before they could construct a bomb. And we won't even address where they would get the expertise to do that.

"Then of course there is still the problem of storing and securing the nuclear waste, since there is no known alternatives for disposal."

There are plenty of alternatives. Few have been pursued, mainly for political reasons and not technical ones. Besides, as time goes on, reactor technology has been reducing the waste generated by improving the burnup ratio. That means the waste products are useful for producing power also.
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