2011/3/15 David Parsons <[email protected]>: > There is plenty of Uranium on this planet, it's not really rare.
Far more common than eg. silver. It's mining the stuff that is difficult. AFAIK, Canada is the only country left with ore containing >1% U. > Besides that, the waste fuel can be re-used (but currently isn't due > to government policies, not from any technical reason) and the supply > can be extended for several usage cycles. If breeder reactors had no technical issues at all, you wouldn't have to blame the government. The Fast Flux Test Facility in USA was an experimental breeder of sorts, wasn't it? IIRC it used liquid sodium for cooling the core, but transferred the energy to steam before putting it through the turbines. Nobody knows if that design is quake-proof. It's probably not. If the steam leaked into the sodium cirquit, it would ka-boom enough to maybe even satisfy Marvin the Martian. :-) Not that I claim to be an expert on these things, but then again, who is? -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
