The resources are always the FIRST thing I think about, which is why I advocate subcritical reactors (well, it's one reason).
Luckily we have a lot of thorium, or so I'm reliably informed, which is what subcritical reactors use. On 16 November 2013 10:19, Russell Standish <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 01:01:44PM -0800, meekerdb wrote: > > On 11/15/2013 11:06 AM, John Clark wrote: > > > > > >Lets look at the disasters associated with various energy producing > projects: > > > > > >In 1975 the Shimantan/Banqiao hydroelectric Dam in China failed and > killed 171,000 people. > > > > > >In 1979 the Three Mile Island reactor melted down and killed nobody. > > > > > >In 1986 the Chernobyl nuclear plant melted down and killed 31 > > >immediately and 4000 many decades later. > > > > > >In 1979 the Morvi hydroelectric Dam in India failed and killed 1500 > people, > > > > > >In 1998 a oil pipeline in Nigeria exploded and killed 1078 people. > > > > > >In 1907 the Monongah Coal Mine in West Virginia exploded and killed > well over 500 people. > > > > > >In 1944 a liquified natural gas factory exploded in Cleveland Ohio and > killed 130 people. > > > > > >In 2011 the Fukushima nuclear power plant melted down and killed nobody. > > > > Not only that, coal mining releases a lot more radioctivity into the > > atmosphere than nuclear plants ever have. > > > > Brent > > > > For all the arguments pro and con nuclear fission, including an > impassioned speech by a 16 year old last night to a UN Youth Voice > competition, what never seems to be discussed is the elephant in the > room of how much uranium resources we have. IIUC, if all fossil fuel > power plants were replaced by conventional fission reactors, we'd burn > through our uranium supplies in about 50 years flat. So fission > reactors do not solve the problem. Of course there is fast breeder > technology, but everbody is so shit scared about all the plutonium that > would then appear on the market, making it incredibly easy for rogue > states to construct nuclear weapons, that I don't see that happening > any time soon either. > > Cheers > > > -- > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) > Principal, High Performance Coders > Visiting Professor of Mathematics [email protected] > University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
