Yeah, I've never heard that. She pulled that out of her ass to confirm her dogma of nuclear = bad.EquALLity wrote: The first 'negative' aspect was the thermal pollution, so I mentioned the cooling towers. According to her, they cool up some of the water, but not all of it, so it's still a problem?
That sounds like bullshit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooling_tower
Congratulations, you're now smarter than your science teacher. It's a realization that's potentially very disappointing.A cooling tower is a heat rejection device which rejects waste heat to the atmosphere through the cooling of a water stream to a lower temperature. Cooling towers may either use the evaporation of water to remove process heat and cool the working fluid to near the wet-bulb air temperature or, in the case of closed circuit dry cooling towers, rely solely on air to cool the working fluid to near the dry-bulb air temperature.
Stuff breaks down, but it's not that hard to safely store wastes. What leak is she talking about?EquALLity wrote: The second was the disposal issue. She said that we haven't found a way to safely store it, which also sounds like BS, but I don't really know much about that. She said something about how nuclear waste was being stored somewhere and the 'concrete broke'? So it leaked I guess?
I found this about a recent one: http://www.ecy.wa.gov/programs/nwp/sections/tankwaste/closure/pages/tank_leak_FAQ.html
Really not that big of a deal, it was easily detected and it's being dealt with. It won't affect anybody.
She'll probably say it's just a propaganda piece.EquALLity wrote:Then she said that nuclear energy isn't clean energy.
It's pretty bizarre how anti-science my science teacher is.
I think I'm going to email her the documentary after I watch it later.
Political dogma is just as irrational as religion, sometimes even harder to overcome.