Outcry and fear as Pakistan builds new nuclear reactors in dangerous Karachi - Polidicks

Oh, that place where people can literally buy third-party guns on the street, and often just shoot them randomly in the air to test that they function correctly? That sounds like a good environment. I'd say it's like if they decided to create de_nuke in real life, but there isn't a CT force at all in that area.

[QUOTE=Jzzb;47277099]Right now in the United States, I feel like nuclear power has been demonized to the point of it never being able to get off the ground. I almost feel like comparing it to if we had abandoned the idea of aircraft because of the Hindenberg disaster.[/QUOTE] Didn't zeppelins get pretty much abandoned after Hindenburg though? Heard it from somewhere but I might be wrong

[QUOTE=Wizards Court;47273617]with nuclear energy the issue is that most people believe it will be done without the necessary amount of care, with companies/governments cutting corners, the whole fukushima issue which had the company in charge doing just that doesn't make it better, add the general fear 90% of the planet has of nuclear anything, and welp. i still think everyone should be pushing towards thorium reactors since they are inherently safer, plus the planet is loaded with thorium(i read somewhere it would last 500.000+ years if the planet switched to thorium en masse). [sp]before i'm drowned in a pile of boxes, i'm pro nuclear-energy btw[/sp] :v:[/QUOTE] Not like there is a shortage of uranium either, easily mined uranium will last over 100000 years at current rates of consumption. Even if all the worlds power needs were met by nuclear power it would still last over 20000.

[QUOTE=Wizards Court;47273617] i still think everyone should be pushing towards thorium reactors since they are inherently safer, plus the planet is loaded with thorium(i read somewhere it would last 500.000+ years if the planet switched to thorium en masse). [sp]before i'm drowned in a pile of boxes, i'm pro nuclear-energy btw[/sp] :v:[/QUOTE] Thorium is like the e-85 of nuclear reactors, it still needs highly refined uranium to operate and they aren't really any safer than regular uranium cycle reactors or any cleaner they just are using a mixed fuel instead of full uranium. Another problem is that the designs rely on reprocessing tech that frankly is woefully under developed and utilized and would better benefit uranium reactors anyways.

[QUOTE=Sableye;47281439]Thorium is like the e-85 of nuclear reactors, it still needs highly refined uranium to operate and they aren't really any safer than regular uranium cycle reactors or any cleaner they just are using a mixed fuel instead of full uranium. Another problem is that the designs rely on reprocessing tech that frankly is woefully under developed and utilized and would better benefit uranium reactors anyways.[/QUOTE] MOX reprocessing, as it stands right now, is nasty, expensive, and largely unproductive. It isn't by any means a solution.

[QUOTE=Snowmew;47271964]Your ad hominem argument doesn't make me wrong. No radiation deaths and 0-100 potential cancer deaths (statistically negligible). Also, Fukushima was built in 1967 - not a modern reactor design. Please, continue. Today is boring and I need something to do.[/QUOTE] Hey Snowmew, can you do a breakdown of reactors advances and security measures for us the ignorant and poor pleb?