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Argentina will press ahead with plans to develop small-scale nuclear reactors
Argentina will press ahead with plans to develop a small-scale nuclear reactor over the next three years, even when last month‘s disaster in Japan prompted countries such as Germany and Brazil to reconsider projects. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesas long as they understand, that these things are not toys,
Apr 29th, 2011 - 09:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0and may be a target in any future problems,
still, we all have to grow up sometime,
Brazil didn't abandon any projects. Just today, the government has forecasted that the Angra 3 won't be delayed and that, 20 years from now, Brazil will no longer build dams and will have to rely more on nuclear power.
Apr 29th, 2011 - 09:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The Carem, developed by INVAP is an interesting unit because it is small enough to be used in naval applications, surface ships or subs. Hopefully we learned something from the disaster in Japan and we'll develop more safety systems and countermeasures to deal with the likelihood of an accident.
Apr 29th, 2011 - 10:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Well to be fair, i hope we all learned from japan.
Apr 29th, 2011 - 10:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0i know the british goverment has to decide on upgrading ours, but we are slightly different not living along the fault lines, abet, we still get small ones, i dont remember south america getting any, i could be wrong, but untill we find a better alternative [power to serve all our needs, then we just have to be carefull.
I don't think we'll be building any nuclear reactors near Chile, it would be literally suicidal.
Apr 29th, 2011 - 10:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0or very very hot
Apr 29th, 2011 - 10:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Uh, yeah like 5000 degrees hot... in no time.
Apr 29th, 2011 - 10:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Still nuclear reactors for power,is the cleanest and cheapest alternative that we have today.
Apr 29th, 2011 - 11:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0100 MW,comming from wind power,will cost about the same of a nuke,that delivers 10 times more power,or about 1000MW.
Nuclear power,is an excellent alternative for poor countries,not having Coal or petroleum.
Bill Gates,is funding a new generation of nukes,called Travelling Wave reactors.
Interesting outcome of these types of nukes..
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/03/24/bill-gates-wants-nuclear-reactor/
“Nuclear power, is an excellent alternative for poor countries, not having Coal or petroleum...” or rivers to build dams.
Apr 30th, 2011 - 02:03 am - Link - Report abuse 0In the end you choose the lesser of all evils, building dams may seem far safer than nuclear reactors but the impact on the environment is tremendous. Water and everything in it is important too. We're in a period of evolutionary adolescence, still stumbling in our own mistakes.
Small reactors like the Carem may offer 'some' safety, in that dealing with an accident in a massive nuclear plant may pose a much bigger challenge than in the case of a small reactor. Still, there is no margin for error.
Japan didn't give two shits about margins of error, 50 reactors on one of the most active fault lines on Earth. It was BOUND to happen... and now they're dumping irradiated coolant into the ocean because “they have no choice”. Well shit I guess now we all have to pay for it.
How about... a bunch of small reactors instead of one huge reactor, drawing on past experiences to develop more advanced failsafe systems. If a big reactor goes down or suffers a catastrophic cooling failure, you're screwed... if a small reactor goes down, no worries you still have the other ones running, and hopefully it won't post too great a challenge to deal with.
Oh and... don't put them on a fault line, or right on the edge of a river or the ocean. : P
Japan reactor were very old design. General Electric Mark 1,designed in the '60.Now we have much better tecnology for nukes.
Apr 30th, 2011 - 02:20 am - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/16/world/asia/16contain.html
Saludos,martin
Long live nukes!!!!
Apr 30th, 2011 - 02:28 am - Link - Report abuse 0That sounds so wrong... lol
Saludos che!
whatever happend to freedom ?? democracy and all that BS we are being sold into ??? I was under the impression Argentina had the same rights as any soverign nation, please people from developed nations do us Argentine's a favor and implement your ideas in your own land before coming to tell us how to manage our own, your advise however well intended is not welcome.
May 01st, 2011 - 10:19 am - Link - Report abuse 0I,
May 01st, 2011 - 11:32 am - Link - Report abuse 0your argument is incoherent.
You have comment here from the USA and from Britain - both of which have long-existing nuclear energy industries and have had nuclear disasters, Three Mile Island and Winscale.
The advice given here is sound and well-meaning
. . . . . . like I would prefer to see Argentina's new plant a few hundred miles further away from B.A. in spite of the visual damage pylon lines make in a pampas landscape (I monitored the Cs137 cloud and fallout from Chernobyl across Europe, into food and into humans, for three years, and I know how far long-half-life particles can travel!)
These disasters and the Japanese nuclear disaster won't be the last, but there is advantage from generating ever-safer designs of nuclear plant around the world.
This energy source cannot be denied as carbon sources decline over time.
great, except you have store the spent fuel somewhere?
May 02nd, 2011 - 08:33 am - Link - Report abuse 0Hi, Isolde,
May 02nd, 2011 - 09:58 am - Link - Report abuse 0always a consideration, but Argentina has vast uppopulated spaces of reasonably inactive geologies where *ve material can be eg vitrified and placed safely at depth and away from living organisms.
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