An other part of my article,
Nuclear energy. Before we get into a discussion and evaluation of nuclear energy, I like to make my own position clear on this. I am against nuclear power. Not because any technical reason, but because I do not belive that any Nation can be trusted regarding nuclear weapons. When I say any, I mean any and without exceptions. This is not because I learned more about nuclear technology, but because I learned more about humanity. The only Nation that used nuclear bombs, have with the DU munition already proven that they could not refrain from using it in weapon technology again. The EU tried to do a cost evaluation of different energy sources, including the social costs of pollution etc. This cost exercise did not include accident costs since this would be a very elaborate and almost impossible calculation. A very interesting exercise that clearly show a very high cost for fossil oil products and nuclear end up to be a cheap fossil electricity source. Solar, wind and biofuels also come out as very economical , due to its lower social costs. We have somewhat more experiences than others of nuclear power plants. In the beginning of the 1970's, Theodore Rosenthal (co founder of Energy Saving Now web site) and I had the task to provide and manage an engineering group who did the piping stress control calculations on the two last built nuclear power plants in Sweden. It has been generally regarded as safe, from weapon point of view, to allow one stage nuclear power plants, although this idea have been challenged lately. If everybody was using only one stage power plants, the R/P value for nuclear resources is around 60 years. I can therefore see the commercial temptations of having two classes of users of nuclear power plants. The first being the one stage group and the second the "trusted" multistage group. The second one would then have an abundance of energy resources in what the first group consider as a nuclear waste problem. They would even be willing to pay to get it solved. Using multi stage technology will of course extend the R/P value with several multiples. If we want to be joking in a cynical way (black humor), we could see the DU munition as a disposal system, whereby the first group get back their refined nuclear waste. Hakan [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Get A Free Psychic Reading! Your Online Answer To Life's Important Questions. http://us.click.yahoo.com/Lj3uPC/Me7FAA/ySSFAA/FGYolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
