On Dec 22, 12:57 pm, "Don Libby" <[email protected]> wrote:
> There is not one "only"
> answer, there are several, which are rational, and they involve the
> construction of thousands of new nuclear reactors, as in A1T, or B1. The
> international questions that matter are who will build reactors, who will
> finance their construction, who will receive emissions credits from them,
> and who will prosper from the sale of electricity.
And who will control radioactive matter,
long after people get benefit from it.
This is primarily a problem of sequestration, I think, so
it is basically similar to that of carbon sequestration.
Radioactive waste is quantitatively much smaller than CO2,
but qualitatively different.
Another concern is that nuclear fuel can be used for
military or terrorist purposes.
We do not want to give that technology to broken governments,
even if the people (including civil servants) have good will.
They must have capacity to control their merchants or militia
not to contribute to terrorists or unknown outsiders.
We do not want to give that technology to totalitarian regimes,
which may be able to control the technology, until their people
make upheavals. Even if the revolutionaries have good will,
they are likely to disrupt the stringent control of nuclear matter
(It should have been a symbolic part of the despotic regime).
So the part of the world where we can safely install
nuclear technology is very limited.
Maybe, such nuclear fuel cycle that cannot yield
nuclear bomb matter can help. (Thorium cycle? I am not sure).
If you promote nuclear power, please explicitly promote such
technology.
Ko-1 M. (Kooiti Masuda)
>From the county which got nuclear-bombed (though I do not usually say
this)
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