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Yeah, greenest only if you ignore the environmental/human/dollar costs of
getting the uranium out of the ground and then you forget about that whole
messy decommissioning component (which usually relies on the assumption that
national
, Dec 7, 2011 4:29 pm
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Yeah, greenest only if you ignore the environmental/human/dollar costs of
getting the uranium out of the ground and then you forget about that whole
messy decommissioning component (which
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Yeah, greenest only if you ignore the environmental/human/dollar costs
of getting the uranium out of the ground and then you forget about
that whole messy
lunch..
Paul
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From: Owen Densmore o...@backspaces.net
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group friam@redfish.com
Sent: Thu, Dec 8, 2011 5:15 am
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Gates discussing new nuclear reactor with China - Yahoo!
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I hate to say
am
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Gates discussing new nuclear reactor with China - Yahoo!
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I hate to say it, but I think the nuke issue has turned into a very PC
conversation. They're Just Wrong. Basically a sort of Science vs Religion
discussion. Saying Nuke's are OK or maybe even Nukes
Sent: Thu, Dec 8, 2011 7:04 am
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Greetings, all --
Bill McKibben probably said it best - there's no such thing as a silver bullet,
only silver buckshot. We're going to need a variety of sources for energy, and
we're
From the I Like Nukes department we have new designs that look
interesting:
http://news.yahoo.com/gates-discussing-nuclear-reactor-china-124722465.html
They run on depleted uranium and apparently are safer.
Ironically, nukes are apparently the greenest critters around too.
-- Owen
Yeah, greenest only if you ignore the environmental/human/dollar costs of
getting the uranium out of the ground and then you forget about that whole
messy decommissioning component (which usually relies on the assumption
that national government must ultimately underwrite/pick up the tab and is
On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 9:27 PM, Robert Holmes rob...@holmesacosta.comwrote:
Yeah, greenest only if you ignore the environmental/human/dollar costs of
getting the uranium out of the ground and then you forget about that whole
messy decommissioning component (which usually relies on the
More here: http://bravenewclimate.com/2010/09/22/twr-vs-ifr There
appears to be some sentiment that Gate's TWR is not as good as the IFR
designs. I don't know enough to judge.
Also, Monbiot has a new screed out on GE-Hitachi's proposal for an IFR:
...last week GE Hitachi (GEH) told the
Hmm... LANL built the world's first experimental fast reactor (Clementine,
1946). Hard to say which was strictly the world's first commercial one
(Dounreay? Super-Phenix?) but the big problem they've all had is that cost
of operation price of electricity generated. Which is why after 60
years
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