Hello Todd, Joey
Just because something may be doable doesn't mean that it's
feasible, whether that feasibility is higher ratios of waste,
expanded dispersal of radioactivity, increased economic cost,
increased energy cost, etc., etc., etc.
Even if all things are equal in comparison to traditional refining,
you still have the same problems/pitfalls/inefficiencies for nuclear
power that are distinctly pointed out in the article below.
Essentially, nuclear power is in the same realm as petroleum. It's a
non-renewable resource and its waste products are particularly
voluminous and destructive in their own right.
Yet still governments push for increased nuclear capacity. Same
mindset as pushing for increased petroleum capacity.
They're both the great green answer to global warming, don't you
know, nuclear even more so - it's turns out it's the *only* answer to
global warming, according to a worldwide campaign now in motion at a
media-outlet near you, if I read it right. Turn the spin-meter up,
keep spare batteries, leave the terriers in the yard at night.
What was it Einstein said?
"The problems we face will not be solved by the minds that created them."
He didn't seem too sure himself what it was he said. Take your choice:
#1. The world that we have made as a result of the level of thinking that we
have done so far, has created problems we cannot solve at the level of
thinking at which we created them. - Albert Einstein
#2. "You can never solve a problem with the same kind of thinking
that created the problem in the first place"
- Albert Einstein.
#3. Long hair minimizes the need for barbers; socks can be done
without; one leather jacket solves the coat problem for many years;
suspenders are superfluous.
-- Albert Einstein
I'll settle for 2 for first place, and 3 in a tie for second place
with your rendition, well ahead of Albert in fourth place.
All best
Keith
Todd Swearingen
Joey Hundert wrote:
Keith,
What sort of impact has been made by the use of ISL (in situ leaching)
methods of uranium extraction on the overall disturbance and pollution of
uranium 'mining'. Does this method reduce the impact?
-Joey
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Subject: [Biofuel] Deconstructing the Nuclear Power Myths
The Institute of Science in Society
Science Society Sustainability
http://www.i-sis.org.uk
ISIS Press Release 11/07/05
Deconstructing the Nuclear Power Myths
Peter Bunyard disposes of the argument for nuclear power: it is
highly uneconomical, and the saving on greenhouse gas emissions
negligible, if any, compared to a gas-fired electricity generating
plant
<snip>
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