Nuclear plant in Finland 3-5billion over budget Siemens Areva Finish govt in law suit love triangle Areva just bought Multibird wind turbines and Ausra solar thermal so they're so sure of Nuclear that they're diversiftying into renewables Spain's SENER built the successful nukes in spain -- has now stopped and is building molten salt power tower solar thermal plants 24 hour baseload solar plants and when they built the nukes they didn't want to own them As for some other nuke plants in Spain that failed to get commissioned Spain lost 6 billion euro's on these. 6 billion euro's -- no power out the other end -- economic modelling not required
bad investment On Wed, Feb 24th, 2010 at 12:50 PM, Paul Gaske <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 11:37 AM, mike smith <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > On 23 February 2010 21:29, Tony Wright <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> And you donât need to go nuclear. Nuclear as it currently > stands is just > >> a disgraceful option. The radioactive waste in current nuclear > reactors with > >> current technology takes 10,000 years to break down. > >> > > > > That would be excluding IFR reactors? Why exclude the best > technology when > > you quote figures? > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breeder_reactor > > > > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breeder_reactor> > > Even more comprehensive are systems such as the Integral Fast > Reactor<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integral_Fast_Reactor> (IFR) > > pyroprocessing system, which uses pools of molten > cadmium<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadmium> and > > electrorefiners to reprocess metallic fuel directly on-site at the > reactor. > > [9] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breeder_reactor#cite_note-8> > Such > > systems not only commingle all the minor actinides with both > uranium and > > plutonium, they are compact and self-contained, so that no > > plutonium-containing material ever needs to be transported away > from the > > site of the breeder reactor. > > > > > Just to add to the nuclear option; thorium reactors producing 3% of > the > waste of a traditional nuclear reactor. Additionally, the waste > produced > has a half-life of 500 years. > > http://www.abc.net.au/quantum/scripts98/9820/rundown.htm#thorium > > > -- > Paul Gaske ([email protected]) > Software Engineer > Codify Pty Ltd - www.codify.com > Phone: +61 (7) 3210 6268 | Facsimile: +61 (7) 3210 6269 | Mobile: +61 > 417 > 791 916 > Address Info: http://www.codify.com/AboutUs/ContactDetails >
