Chernobyl

This applies for Chernobyl, Fukushima, and any future nuclear power plant.

Melted down reactors need to have a safe way of being removed. Since you can't get people or robotics near the horribly radioactive core.

So they could put huge shipyard type cranes at power plant sites. Then play the world's largest crane game. Rip everything out and then pluck the core out. Move the crane down its rails and drop the core in a deep deep deep hole. Which you then fill with cement; or place the core in a shielded container to move it by train or ship to a permanent storage site.

Thats a yyuuuuggggeeeeee carne

It has a smaller second crane on it, over on the left side. Even that crane is pretty big.

The Radiotrophic fungi didn't become that way do to Chernobyl. It was already like that. The melanin all fungi and even humans contain turns radiation into biologically useful energy. It is actually pretty neat, but probably 99.999% useless for the human body. However, growing fungi using radiation as their food source means you can have an endless supply of edible fungi for human consumption.

Can't a melted core be recycled? you can use the crane to drop a wedge on it to cut it up into smaller and smaller pieces until the core parts are strewn enough to be normally manageable.

I think it they can make a crane to get the core out that would be cool
Then what would you do with a core?

Wait, is human melanin radiotrophic?

Sounds like that'd require having a deep, deep hole next to every power plant to begin with.

In which case, why not just put the reactor down there to begin with, and simply bury it if it melts down?

instead, why dont we just use already existing technologies to build reactors where meltdowns are nearly impossible, waste is almost non-existent, and fuel sources are cheap?
oh wait, because we let people who have no fucking clue what they're doing make energy policy...

people making energy policy think oil is only about energy for transportation.

they fail to consider that pretty much everything is made from oil these days.We would all starve if we didn't have petrochemcial based fertilizers and pest/herb-icides

Which makes Comrade Sanders and Shillary's stance on fracking really dangerous.

Sorry if stupid question, but how exactly does the fungus turn radiation into more biomass?

Proof (along with Fukushima) that we need to decommission all nuclear power plants all over the world, they just pose too much of a safety hazard especially when truly clean and safe sources such as wind and solar exist

>Wind and solar
Have fun using electricity on a cold windless night.

Wrong

Spiders specifically within the zone are now building fucked up webs which are less effective at catching prey, and these are many many generations down the line from the original accident 30 years ago

The most interesting thing that happened in the zone is a species of bird has evolved to produce anti oxidants that protect them from living in such a radioactive place

This is two examples of short lived animals' evolution being affected by the radioactive environment

A third is the catfish living in the Chernobyl cooling lake and while catfish can live a long time and therefore don't fall into your categorization, catfish in the lake are roughly 1/3rd the size that they should be for their age

The radioactivity has driven evolution there with some species thriving which is very interesting considering at the time people believed it would be a lifeless wasteland for thousands of years

>careful not to fall for it

>Can't a melted core be recycled?
Only thing I can think of is as a dirty bomb to be dropped on a city you do no like,

>until the core parts are strewn enough to be normally manageable.
read this story to see just how small it might have to be: wired.com/2011/10/ff_radioactivecargo/

I'm pretty sure by short lives and high reproduction rates user meant microorganisms, not higher animals like spiders, birds or catfish.

>The radioactivity has driven evolution there with some species thriving which is very interesting considering at the time people believed it would be a lifeless wasteland for thousands of years

Very interesting indeed, but did people with proper scientific education think that it would be a barren wasteland, or was it just the general public? Seems pretty obvious (now at least) that life adapts pretty much everywhere.

>barren wasteland
Hiroshima, ground zero: nearby was a bank built with bricks. Everyone inside died. Two days later the bank was operating again. The scientific community knew but you know such scenarios do not sell newspapers. So please bring on the doomsday scenarios.

how many different measures for radiation are there jesus fuck

extremely expensive
some of the most expensive man made structures are nuclear power plants

coal and natural gas is orders of magnitude cheaper and doesnt come with a massive political stigma

absolutely wrong, future nuclear reactor need to be built on top of rockets, so when there is a core melt down, the rocket will ignite and send our problems into space.

>read this story to see just how small it might have to be

You do realize they assemble this stuff in larger sizes right?

>nearly impossible

kek

>waste is almost non-existent,

hahahaha

>fuel sources are cheap

oh shit this is hilarious