Can we overcome the need for Sun energy by replacing with Nuclear energy, sending the waste out to some other?

Question

planet?

Answer 1

Solar power has the advantage of being readily available and environmentally clean. Current nuclear power systems involve radioactive substances which are difficult to eliminate. Is it the best answer to solar power? No, but fusion power is. As soon as fusion power becomes commercially available, all fission power plants will become obsolete, and so will most solar power installations. Fusion power promises to be readily available and environmentally clean as well, but at a far higher energy density than solar power, meaning more power in less plant space.

Answer 2

Short of Fusion energy becoming economically possible, why would we want to? Solar power doesn't pollute, and nuclear can. The waste heat from a nuclear plant is enormous. The problem with sending spent fuel off of the planet is an extreme problem. What do you do if the rocket carrying the spent fuel explodes in mid flight, or before it leaves the launch pad? I think your thought on this issue is a bit premature, and not well thought out. There is on going research at the Savannah Nuclear Research facility in South Carolina to find a way to get rid of, or encapsulate spent nuclear material so that it poses no threat to the environment. To date, at least the last I knew, they had not found any reliable method, yet. I think solar might be the better way, at least for now.

Answer 3

Short answer: Yes.
Long answer: Yes.

The only safe renewable energy sources are solar power and nuclear power and we don't currently have the capability to harness solar power efficiently.

May the wind be always at your back,
-Empyrealmortality

Answer 4

why would you want to use an artifically made enegery (nuculer) and worry about getting rid of waste when the natural energyu of the sun has no waste at all?

Answer 5

Maybe if we want to end up with a " Run away greenhouse" Earth. And what about the food chain?