Spain isn't a poster child for good economy. On 24 February 2010 14:24, <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 don’t 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 > > > > > > -- Meski "Going to Starbucks for coffee is like going to prison for sex. Sure, you'll get it, but it's going to be rough" - Adam Hills
