Disney may lose its right to build a nuclear power station

[George]

That is nuclear weapon stuff there, not nuclear power plants. Nuke weapons are a different subject altogether as well as the waste generated by that process.

Correct. I just scanned it and saw Los Alamos. Did some contract work at Sandia years ago. Learned how to ski at Pajarito. I was a post-doc at UNM at the time.

 

[PorterRedkey]

Also in the case of WIPP the dose equivalent release was 1 millrem per year well below the limit of 10 per year. Once again nobody was killed or hurt from this. Just driving your car is more dangerous. Even taking into account Fukushima and Chernobyl.

But it cost 2 billion for a single leaking drum. Cost like these also need to be considered when pricing the efficiency of nuclear energy.

 

[George]

I’m going to run for President and push for thorium reactors out the ying yang. We’ll still have some plain Jane uraniums in the works, but my sales job for Th will be compelling. My slogan might be “Thorium out the ying yang.”

 

[JoeCamel]

None of that matters. Disney will not build a nuclear power plant on their property. The cooling towers would scare too many of their customers away. Disney wants to attract as many customers as possible and that is why they try to keep politics out of their parks.

But if they theme them as volcanos? Fire Mtn anyone?

 

[PorterRedkey]

But if they theme them as volcanos? Fire Mtn anyone?

A little too hot for me.

 

[larryz]

I am in the industry and we study this incident every year in our training. The fact is everything that could go wrong just about did and yet still nobody was killed or injured. Now from the lessons learned there are even more systems and policies in place that mitigate or eliminate all that went wrong there. Luck really had nothing to do with it. They didnt do anything right and still you could have been standing at the gate and not get one millirem of exposure. Heck smokers get more dose than I do working at a plant.

Key words: "just about." Thank God someone finally realized what had happened, but the report gets very sketchy when you start looking for that "aha!" moment when the control team realized what was actually happening and turned the pumps back on.

Again, I'm not anti-nuke, I just don't think it's a good idea to gloss over operating errors that lead to partial melt-downs.

 

[SteamboatJoe]

 

[jt04]

South Korea and the U.S. working to perfect factory built small reactors that can't suffer melt down due to size of the core. They can be delivered by truck or rail and the goal I think is to have them be about 150 MW of generating capacity. No greenhouse gases. Runs 24/7.

Perfect.

 

[danlb_2000]

South Korea and the U.S. working to perfect factory built small reactors that can't suffer melt down due to size of the core. They can be delivered by truck or rail and the goal I think is to have them be about 150 MW of generating capacity. No greenhouse gases. Runs 24/7.

Perfect.

Doesn't really matter how safe it is, when people hear nuclear they will be resistant to it. There are a number of safer reactor designs, but the public perception of nuclear power impedes their development.

 

[Lensman]

Doesn't really matter how safe it is, when people hear nuclear they will be resistant to it. There are a number of safer reactor designs, but the public perception of nuclear power impedes their development.

I think that's unfortunate.

The other problem that nuclear has is financial competitiveness.

South Korea and the U.S. working to perfect factory built small reactors that can't suffer melt down due to size of the core. They can be delivered by truck or rail and the goal I think is to have them be about 150 MW of generating capacity. No greenhouse gases. Runs 24/7.

Are you thinking of a small sodium-cooled fast reactor or a more traditional technology small modular reactor?

 

[s8film40]

Disney doesn’t really have the right to build a nuclear power plant. All nuclear power plants have to be approved by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. All this piece of legislation really means is that as far as Florida is concerned they can build one on the property, but that doesn’t give them any authority or permission to build one. It’s an outdated and useless piece of legislation and removing it is probably equally useless.

 

[Minthorne]

Didn’t Trump tweet that he wanted to approve coal mining in Florida?

 

[xdan0920]

Disney doesn’t really have the right to build a nuclear power plant. All nuclear power plants have to be approved by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. All this piece of legislation really means is that as far as Florida is concerned they can build one on the property, but that doesn’t give them any authority or permission to build one. It’s an outdated and useless piece of legislation and removing it is probably equally useless.

Useless bureaucracy? Surely you jest. Our government is a well oiled machine.

 

[jt04]

I think that's unfortunate.

The other problem that nuclear has is financial competitiveness.


Are you thinking of a small sodium-cooled fast reactor or a more traditional technology small modular reactor?

The latter I believe.

 

[raymusiccity]

The latter I believe.

" I concur. "

 

[larryz]

Didn’t Trump tweet that he wanted to approve coal mining in Florida?

Actually, the administration said they'd like to open up the offshore lease program again, off both coasts of Florida... more and cheaper oil and natural gas would lower the pressure on anyone to build a new nuclear power station.

 

[World_Showcase_Lover007]

Doesn't really matter how safe it is, when people hear nuclear they will be resistant to it. There are a number of safer reactor designs, but the public perception of nuclear power impedes their development.

So you’re saying that Reedy Creek Nuclear District doesn’t have a nice ring to it lol?

 

[Dunston]

How's that for an Epcot Pavilion? Nuclear Fusion, energy source of the future...

 

[jt04]

How's that for an Epcot Pavilion? Nuclear Fusion, energy source of the future...

And hydrogen. In my opinion.

 

[GlacierGlacier]

How's that for an Epcot Pavilion? Nuclear Fusion, energy source of the future...

Something about this sounds... Familiar...
Something worlds-fair-y