ultracritical

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TURKEY POWER⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Uranium is present in coal in high enough quantities that a coal plant releases more uranium to the environment then an equivalent nuke plant burns in its reactor, and mining for materials for solar panels creates literal mountains of thorium salts and other thorium contaminated debris.

  Nuclear plants have the unfortunate position that they actually have to manage their nuclear waste due to its concentration. It’s not actually hard to store the waste permanently from a technical perspective, it’s just difficult to have the political will to actually do it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TURKEY POWER⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Be about 3x that number. Reactors are about 33-40% efficient. So a 1000 MW electric plant is running at 3000 MW thermal. Would be relatively easy too. Just a gigantic steam heated oven. So 7.5 million turkeys, enough to feed 90 million people or about a quarter of the US.