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Re: The Spanish Grid Drop-out - recently released information.

Subject Re: The Spanish Grid Drop-out - recently released information.
Newsgroups sci.electronics.design
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From Phil Hobbs <pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net>
Message-ID <d25b111c-e6eb-3cc5-3e1e-235baa253cae@electrooptical.net> (permalink)
Date 2025-05-15 13:02 -0400

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On 2025-05-15 11:22, Joe Gwinn wrote:
> On Wed, 14 May 2025 19:38:09 -0400, Phil Hobbs
> <pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net> wrote:
> 
>> On 2025-05-14 17:37, john larkin wrote:
>>> On Wed, 14 May 2025 21:10:06 +0200, "Carlos E.R."
>>> <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 2025-05-14 19:19, john larkin wrote:
>>>>> On Tue, 13 May 2025 22:28:23 +0200, "Carlos E.R."
>>>>> <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 2025-05-13 18:14, Bill Sloman wrote:
>>>>>>> On 13/05/2025 11:48 pm, john larkin wrote:
>>>>>>>> On Tue, 13 May 2025 12:57:47 +0200, "Carlos E.R."
>>>>>>>> <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Nukes are great, but not if you tear them down.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Nukes are remarkably expensive, and depressingly inflexible. Radiation
>>>>>>> damage to the structure means that you do have to tear them down after a
>>>>>>> few decades of use, and the radioactive waste starts off very
>>>>>>> radioactive, and the longer-lived isotopes have to be managed for a few
>>>>>>> hundred thousand years.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> And the investors building the stations do not consider the cost of
>>>>>> managing the waste for centuries. They leave that part to the
>>>>>> government. In Spain, we don't have any long term nuclear waste storage.
>>>>>> I think we rent storage in France, so the waste has to be transported
>>>>>> there. We have some storage at each station, a large water pool.
>>>>>
>>>>> The best thing to do with used fuel rods is reprocess them into more
>>>>> fuel.
>>>>
>>>> Something that is expensive and not every country can do.
>>>
>>> A couple of very remote places in the world could do that. And we'd
>>> get lots of fun isotopes too. Can't leave hot rods in a zillion pools
>>> forever.
>>>
>>>>
>>>>> When that's not feasible, dig a deep hole and dump it in. Or drop
>>>>> barrels of junk into an ocean subduction zone.
>>>>
>>>> That's simply wrong.
>>>>
>>>>> It's irrational to store nuclear waste locally. Nuke policy is mostly
>>>>> fear driven. And nukes are unpopular in some quarters by people who
>>>>> really don't want us to have affordable, safe energy.
>>>>
>>>> I have a very rational and studied fear of nuclear power.
>>>
>>> Why?  It's very safe when done carefully.
>>>
>>> The little modular reactors sound cool.
>>
>> Putting used nuclear fuel someplace deepish underground is important.
>> While a nuclear war would be very very bad, surface storage makes it
>> much, much worse.
>>
>> The Chernobyl disaster released about 3.5% of the core inventory of one
>> reactor out of four.(*)
>>
>> One Hiroshima-size bomb on top of a comparable large nuke plant could
>> release all the inventory in all four cores, which would be about
>> 4/0.035 ~ 114 times worse than Chernobyl.
>>
>> If the site included extensive spent-fuel pools, the total would be
>> correspondingly larger--maybe 500 Chernobyls, maybe more.  And that's
>> just one installation.
>>
>> Not a bad score for one small bomb--there are lots bigger ones. :(
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Phil Hobbs
>>
>> (*)
>> <https://www.oecd-nea.org/jcms/pl_28292/chernobyl-chapter-ii-the-release-dispersion-deposition-and-behaviour-of-radionuclides>
> 
> I'd be tempted to put hot waste in very heavy steel casks and drop
> them into the Mariana Trench:
> 
> .<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariana_Trench>
> 
> It's 11 Km deep, and is where the Pacific Plate is subducting under
> the Mariana plate, so those caskets are in for the long term.  Nor is
> retrieval all that easy, or a nuclear weapon of much consequence.  If
> it even works under such pressure.
> 
> Joe
> 
The Marianas Trench is a good choice, especially since it's in US 
territorial waters.  It's been a National Monument for some years, 
though, which would be a nontrivial political obstacle.

I'm quite partial to the Yucca Mountain thing, since even if it were to 
leak at some point, it would only contaminate Death Valley.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

-- 
Dr Philip C D Hobbs
Principal Consultant
ElectroOptical Innovations LLC / Hobbs ElectroOptics
Optics, Electro-optics, Photonics, Analog Electronics
Briarcliff Manor NY 10510

http://electrooptical.net
http://hobbs-eo.com

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