Can you think of anything to do with nuclear power?
I need to think of more questions i might be asked about a pre-release paper for physics on nuclear power.
So far i have:
Gov’t initiatives
Accidents
Waste disposal/reuse/recycling
Levels of waste
Cancer treatment
Half lives
In a reactor
Radiation types
Isotopes
Uranium
Breeder reactors.
ANY IDEAS WELCOME – not spam or jokes please.
August 22nd, 2010 at 11:52 am
Are there any risks involved? – could there be another Long Island or Chernoble.
Costs
August 22nd, 2010 at 12:32 pm
Environmental benefits, pros and cons.
August 22nd, 2010 at 12:56 pm
Costs
Programmes overruns
Location
Terrorist attack
August 22nd, 2010 at 1:36 pm
Proliferation concerns.
Benefits (cost, environmental, etc).
Future/developing technology.
August 22nd, 2010 at 1:52 pm
nuclear development – such as fusion and cold fusion
natural nuclear events such as that from background radiation and what fuels the sun
August 22nd, 2010 at 2:03 pm
The way some old problems have been sorted: Long Island was caused by human error reading overly complex readouts (now fixed by improvements in user interfaces from Computer Science) while Chernoble was caused by a really bad design for the safety equipment (now fixed because people want the reactors to work rather than look like they hadn’t stolen a design).
The new reactors for nuclear subs are incredibly quiet, so quiet that the subs can make less noise than the normal ocean background noise.
The CORUS reactors that are experimenting with nuclear FUSION rather than FISSION.
Nuclear waste recycling
Uses of nuclear waste (Treating cancer like you said, building/pipe maintenance, tank armour etc.)
Waste storage (and how politics can sometimes foul it up royally)