At 10:24 AM 2/3/2006, you wrote:
Zell, Chris wrote:
We haven't had any new nuclear power plants built in many years.
Since any notion of NIMBYism is to be rejected ( despite
overwhelming political evidence that it is real)
Nuclear power plants have been rejected by power companies, not
citizens. Citizens do not like them either but that never stopped
the power companies from building them in the past. The power
companies like to blame the situation on environmentalists but that
is nonsense.
, the clear answer is THAT URANIUM HAS PEAKED!
Why build nuclear power plants when we know that uranium is running
out? Surely, the situation is no different than the fact that the US
hasn't built a new
refinery since 1976 - Obviously, everyone knew - 30 YEARS AGO - that
we were running out of oil and refineries were a waste of time.
I realize this is a joke, but the analogy is flawed.. A nuclear
power plant is to uranium as automobiles are to oil. We have built
plenty of automobiles in the last 20 years, but they were mainly
replacements. The total it has not increased much. So the number
have been stable just as the number of nuclear power plants is stable.
I wrote:
Comparing nuclear power to oil, and oil well with the like a uranium
mine . . .
My voice input went out to lunch. Sorry. It is so fluid I sometimes
forget to check. I meant to write:
Comparing oil to nuclear power:
An oil well is like a uranium mine.
An oil refinery resembles a uranium fuel rod production plant.
Automobiles (the final consumers) resemble power reactors.
Of course these are comparisons only, not an exact fit.
- Jed
