If radiation particles blow over your country next week.

**fan johnny** · 03-17-2011 11:34 PM

What I don't get is why they don't build the plants underground. It's just earth moving! So it won't really add much to the cost of burying the plant because they are encased in cement anyway. It just seems to me that it would be so much easier to build-in fail safes.

**Andre** · 03-17-2011 11:45 PM

Originally Posted by fan johnny

What I don't get is why they don't build the plants underground. It's just earth moving! So it won't really add much to the cost of burying the plant because they are encased in cement anyway. It just seems to me that it would be so much easier to build-in fail safes.

Good point. What about one step further and on the bottom of the ocean so that no end of cooling is right there when required.

**fan johnny** · 03-18-2011 12:01 AM

Originally Posted by Andre

Originally Posted by fan johnny

What I don't get is why they don't build the plants underground. It's just earth moving! So it won't really add much to the cost of burying the plant because they are encased in cement anyway. It just seems to me that it would be so much easier to build-in fail safes.

Good point. What about one step further and on the bottom of the ocean so that no end of cooling is right there when required.

I remember reading about a GE design, but it was a standard for a floating island. I did see a concept though. I think the type is the smaller versions rather than the land based ones. i.e. limited to a few hundred MW rather than 1000's, but chained. I think for them to be economical they have to be maintenance free. I'm not so sure about how they handle the waste. For underground facilities, they simply close the plant down after it is spent. I imagine they could in the future do something silly like launch rockets at the sun and have the spent rods just burn up as they are headed to the sun.

**Andre** · 03-18-2011 01:24 AM

The Sun would get upset if we used it as a crematorium.

It is out of balance enough that we use its Earth as a dump. We are linked to everything.

**Gandalf** · 03-18-2011 02:14 AM

I agree about the clean energies being the most preferential means of producing power. There is no good reason why we haven't been investing more heavily. Well, there are reasons, but I wouldn't call them good. It's time for an entire paradigm shift. It would be better for everyone and much fairer on our planet. If that means large oil companies die then good and shame on any governments that invested pension funds in such corporations.