<story><title>Why We Need Innovative Nuclear Power</title><url>https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/why-we-need-innovative-nuclear-power/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>piokoch</author><text>For years Greenpeace and other &amp;quot;eco&amp;quot; organizations were fighting nuclear energy and now we have what we have. I understand that using solar or wind sounds sweet and in some places on the Earth it might even make some sense if we learn some day how to efficiently store energy. But we need something that works regardless on the weather.&lt;p&gt;Nuclear energy does not comes for free, there are nuclear wastes, but the dangers and difficulties were greatly overblown in the course of anti-nuclear propaganda.&lt;p&gt;I believe we can find the way to reuse nuclear wastes - my guess is that nobody was doing serious research in this area since being &amp;quot;pro&amp;quot; nuclear was not fashionable (and it is still not in many places).</text></item><item><author>nukemandan</author><text>Love this. Close to my heart - Nuclear power is key to making a clean, reliable, safe, and robusts electrical grid. Plus - this is the only realistic way _right now_ to phase out fossil fuels!&lt;p&gt;Great advancements to keep an eye on:
&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.energy.gov&amp;#x2F;ne&amp;#x2F;nuclear-reactor-technologies&amp;#x2F;small-modular-nuclear-reactors&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.energy.gov&amp;#x2F;ne&amp;#x2F;nuclear-reactor-technologies&amp;#x2F;small...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Specifically Molten Salt (Liquid Floride) Thorium Breeder reactors are my personal favorite technology I hope to see come around!&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Liquid_fluoride_thorium_reactor&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Liquid_fluoride_thorium_reacto...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Great place to start: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=D3rL08J7fDA&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=D3rL08J7fDA&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Great videos to follow: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;user&amp;#x2F;gordonmcdowell&amp;#x2F;featured&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;user&amp;#x2F;gordonmcdowell&amp;#x2F;featured&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mcv</author><text>I used to be strongly opposed to nuclear energy, but I now see that as a mistake. I&amp;#x27;m still no fan; nuclear has inherent dangers, and nuclear waste is a massive problem.&lt;p&gt;But global warming is a far bigger problem, which poses far larger threats to the world. We should do whatever it takes to cut back on CO2. We shouldn&amp;#x27;t be having any coal plants anymore. Everything is better than continuing to burn coal and oil, and that includes nuclear.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t see nuclear as a definitive energy source for the next thousand years, but I think we need it as a transitional energy source while we take coal offline and continue to invest in solar, wind, and energy storage.</text></comment>
<story><title>Why We Need Innovative Nuclear Power</title><url>https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/why-we-need-innovative-nuclear-power/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>piokoch</author><text>For years Greenpeace and other &amp;quot;eco&amp;quot; organizations were fighting nuclear energy and now we have what we have. I understand that using solar or wind sounds sweet and in some places on the Earth it might even make some sense if we learn some day how to efficiently store energy. But we need something that works regardless on the weather.&lt;p&gt;Nuclear energy does not comes for free, there are nuclear wastes, but the dangers and difficulties were greatly overblown in the course of anti-nuclear propaganda.&lt;p&gt;I believe we can find the way to reuse nuclear wastes - my guess is that nobody was doing serious research in this area since being &amp;quot;pro&amp;quot; nuclear was not fashionable (and it is still not in many places).</text></item><item><author>nukemandan</author><text>Love this. Close to my heart - Nuclear power is key to making a clean, reliable, safe, and robusts electrical grid. Plus - this is the only realistic way _right now_ to phase out fossil fuels!&lt;p&gt;Great advancements to keep an eye on:
&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.energy.gov&amp;#x2F;ne&amp;#x2F;nuclear-reactor-technologies&amp;#x2F;small-modular-nuclear-reactors&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.energy.gov&amp;#x2F;ne&amp;#x2F;nuclear-reactor-technologies&amp;#x2F;small...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Specifically Molten Salt (Liquid Floride) Thorium Breeder reactors are my personal favorite technology I hope to see come around!&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Liquid_fluoride_thorium_reactor&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Liquid_fluoride_thorium_reacto...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Great place to start: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=D3rL08J7fDA&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=D3rL08J7fDA&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Great videos to follow: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;user&amp;#x2F;gordonmcdowell&amp;#x2F;featured&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;user&amp;#x2F;gordonmcdowell&amp;#x2F;featured&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>walkingolof</author><text>&amp;gt;but the dangers and difficulties were greatly overblown in the course of anti-nuclear propaganda.&lt;p&gt;The nuclear waste generation is a _HUGE_ problem, the problem is so big that very few (if any) country really know how to solve it, look a the US for example as a really frightening example of an out of control waste problem, both from civil and military sources...&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Radioactive_waste#Long_term_management&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Radioactive_waste#Long_term_ma...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>