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Solar Power to the People : Not the Corporations
On Sat, 19 Mar 2011 09:14:28 -0700 (PDT), RHF
wrote: On Mar 17, 10:52*am, bpnjensen wrote: On Mar 17, 12:42*am, wrote: On Mar 16, 7:49*pm, RHF wrote: On Mar 16, 2:11*pm, wrote: They (''They'') seyyyyyyyy Indian Point number three on the Hudson River, bouts twinty four myles North of NYC, issa der Highest Risk Nuke plant in America. I am GLAD Grand Gulf isn't High Risk. cuhulin Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant # 3 in Buchanan, N.Y. {40 Air Miles to NYC}http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42103936...-asia-pacific/ *. and... Prez "BO" {Obama} and the Obama Regime Does Nothing Nothing Nothing : It's the Obama [BP] Oil Spill in the Gulf Thing All Over Again and Again !http://groups.google.com/group/rec.r...48b5a010301579 The Great Obama [BP] Oil Spill of 20&10http://groups.google.com/group/alt.politics.liberalism/msg/e2713a4781... *. It's The Obama [BP] Oil Spill ! -because- Prez Obama and the Obama Regime Did Nothing Nothing Nothing !http://groups.google.com/group/rec.r...09a7e1af7770d3 *. Your Choice : The Real Bad 'Nasty' Nuke "Stuff" -or- The Relatively Not As Bad 'Clean' Coal "Stuff"http://groups.google.com/group/rec.radio.shortwave/msg/4d72ef494dec66f9 *. *. This is an old headache . Unit one (supposed to be shut down in '76) was athorium-fuelled -cycle reactor by design . *Didn't work out .- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - France, Russia and India are all going Thoriumin the next 5 years. Lots of bugs have been worked out. An Official with China [PRC] Health?Nuclear Agency says they are rethinking / reviewing / reexamining the 30+ Nuclear Plants that they have in work. I imagine that France, Russia, India and many others are doing the same thing; Plus reviewing the Plants that are already in-service too. -shut-them-down-shut-them-down-shut-them-down- Nuclear Power's Days Are Numbered and and getting fewer. -just-say-no-nukes-just-say-no-nukes-just-say-no-nukes- Better to Spend the Money wasted on more Nuclear for a National Program to Put a 1~5 KW Array of Solar Panels on Each and Every House in the USA. -solar-to-the-people-solar-to-the-people-solar-to-the-people- solar power to the people : not the corporations ~ RHF . FYI : China presently puts a New 'Clean' Coal Electrical Power Plant In-Service Each Week. -clean-coal-clean-coal-clean-coal-clean-coal-clean-coal- *IF* 'Clean' Coal Electrical Power Plants Are Good Enough For China [PRC] -then- Why Isn't 'Clean' Coal Electrical Power Plants OK For America Too ? ? ? . . http://www.scientificamerican.com/ar...-nuclear-waste http://www.who.int/mediacentre/facts.../en/index.html http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-co...mile-isle.html It takes about ten years for a solar panel to replace the energy it takes to make it. Then it will last about another ten years, just enough to replace the next one. I'm certainly not opposed to wind and solar, and certainly have their place, but we are talking megawatts when the world needs terawatts. Melting down a nuke plant was supposed to be Armageddon, but it simply hasn't tuned out that way. China won't stop building it's nukes, neither will France, and I'll bet a buck that Fukushima will be replaced by a nuke as well. Here's a report published by Argonne National Laboratories on a reactor design that reprocesses it's own fuel and breaks down high level waste to low level, short half life waste to solve the disposal problem. http://www.anl.gov/eesa/pdfs/Advance...ign_Report.pdf Educate yourself Bill Smith |
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On 3/19/2011 1:55 PM, Bill Smith wrote:
Melting down a nuke plant was supposed to be Armageddon, but it simply hasn't tuned out that way. Sudden death by "Armageddon"? Maybe not...more likely slow, lingering deaths. Just today (3/19), they said Iodine 131 was discovered in Tokyo's city water supply. It ain't over until it's over. And with the half-life of some of that nasty waste, it may not be over for 50,000 years or so. |
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On Sat, 19 Mar 2011 15:11:08 -0400, Joe from Kokomo
wrote: On 3/19/2011 1:55 PM, Bill Smith wrote: Melting down a nuke plant was supposed to be Armageddon, but it simply hasn't tuned out that way. Sudden death by "Armageddon"? Maybe not...more likely slow, lingering deaths. Just today (3/19), they said Iodine 131 was discovered in Tokyo's city water supply. It ain't over until it's over. And with the half-life of some of that nasty waste, it may not be over for 50,000 years or so. Did you read the links provided, especially the one about Chernobyl? I did not say "sudden death" nor did I imply it. I agree, it ain't over 'til it's over, but there's certainly no point in getting hysterical. The point I wished to make is that as severe as accidents like Chernobyl are, it's not as bad as some would portray it. A million deaths? Nonsense. Compare cost/benefit ratios in terms of both lives and money, of all the ways there are to make the power we need, and nuclear power is looks pretty good, all things considered. Bill Smith |
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On Sat, 19 Mar 2011 17:33:31 -0700 (PDT), bpnjensen
wrote: On Mar 19, 5:21*pm, Bill Smith wrote: On Sat, 19 Mar 2011 19:35:55 -0400, Joe from Kokomo wrote: On Sat, 19 Mar 2011 15:11:08 -0400, Joe from wrote: On 3/19/2011 1:55 PM, Bill Smith wrote: Melting down a nuke plant was supposed to be Armageddon, but it simply hasn't tuned out that way. Sudden death by "Armageddon"? Maybe not...more likely slow, lingering deaths. Just today (3/19), they said Iodine 131 was discovered in Tokyo's city water supply. It ain't over until it's over. And with the half-life of some of that nasty waste, it may not be over for 50,000 years or so. On 3/19/2011 4:10 PM, Bill Smith wrote: * Did you read the links provided, especially the one about Chernobyl? I did not say "sudden death" nor did I imply it. I agree, it ain't over 'til it's over, but there's certainly no point in getting hysterical. We agree that there is no sense in getting hysterical. However, when you use the word "Armageddon", "A decisive or *catastrophic* conflict", IMHO you certainly -did- imply sudden death. *Fine, I should have chosen a better term. Sue me. :-) The point I wished to make is that as severe as accidents like Chernobyl are, it's not as bad as some would portray it. A million deaths? Nonsense. Nonsense? Well, please explain why an authority no less than the Ukrainian government pegs the death count from Chernobyl at 500,000. Just cuz these deaths occur over time rather than all at once, does not mean the people are any less dead. Did you read the link provided from the World Health Organization? Compare cost/benefit ratios in terms of both lives and money, of all the ways there are to make the power we need, and nuclear power is looks pretty good, all things considered. I like electricity as much as the next person, but the victims of Chernobyl would beg to differ with you...and maybe there are a even some Japanese that are having second thoughts. P.S. Any thoughts on what we do with the highly toxic waste that will be around for 50,000 years or so? Do we have enough rugs to sweep it under? You didn't read the fourth link did you. It's rather long and involved, but it's a new design that deals with the problems faced by conventional pressurized water plants. It operates at a higher temperature but a lower pressure. It's sodium cooled so there aren't the corrosion problems associated water in a plant. The secondary side gas is CO2 which drives a turbine with no condenser so no cooling towers or large body of water like an ocean are required. Water vapor (which is a significant greenhouse gas) from conventional systems puts a lot heat into the environment, this plant doesn't. It has a *reprocessing facility which recovers unused fuel from spent fuel elements and makes new ones from it. Spent fuel elements only exhaust about 20% of the fuel in them, so there is a large amount of it ready to be recovered at plants around the world. Fission products from the spent fuel are formed into rods and placed as a ring around the inner core and left there as the reactor operates in it's next cycle for the life of the fuel, about a year. The elements, principally Cesium 137 and Iodine 131, are broken down by radiation into smaller elements which are either stable or have short half lives with lower energy emissions. These can be safely shipped and stored with existing technology like we do with low level waste. This process has been proven in the laboratory to work. It eliminates shipping dangerous and toxic materials that can be used for bomb making because anything useful is consumed on site. Build one next door to an existing plant and use up all that fuel that's been just sitting there for decades. A plant like this could run for years on what's there. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Bill Smith Thorium reactors have solved most of these problems for awhile now. How many are in operation? I'm well aware of thorium as a reactor fuel, but it doesn't solve the problem of decades worth of spent fuel we have to get rid of somehow. using the uranium and plutonium that's just lying there and reducing the high level waste seems a worthy reason to build burner reactors. Bill Smith |
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On Mar 19, 9:34*pm, Bill Smith wrote:
On Sat, 19 Mar 2011 17:33:31 -0700 (PDT), bpnjensen wrote: On Mar 19, 5:21 pm, Bill Smith wrote: On Sat, 19 Mar 2011 19:35:55 -0400, Joe from Kokomo wrote: On Sat, 19 Mar 2011 15:11:08 -0400, Joe from wrote: On 3/19/2011 1:55 PM, Bill Smith wrote: Melting down a nuke plant was supposed to be Armageddon, but it simply hasn't tuned out that way. Sudden death by "Armageddon"? Maybe not...more likely slow, lingering deaths. Just today (3/19), they said Iodine 131 was discovered in Tokyo's city water supply. It ain't over until it's over. And with the half-life of some of that nasty waste, it may not be over for 50,000 years or so. On 3/19/2011 4:10 PM, Bill Smith wrote: Did you read the links provided, especially the one about Chernobyl? I did not say "sudden death" nor did I imply it. I agree, it ain't over 'til it's over, but there's certainly no point in getting hysterical. We agree that there is no sense in getting hysterical. However, when you use the word "Armageddon", "A decisive or *catastrophic* conflict", IMHO you certainly -did- imply sudden death. Fine, I should have chosen a better term. Sue me. :-) The point I wished to make is that as severe as accidents like Chernobyl are, it's not as bad as some would portray it. A million deaths? Nonsense. Nonsense? Well, please explain why an authority no less than the Ukrainian government pegs the death count from Chernobyl at 500,000. Just cuz these deaths occur over time rather than all at once, does not mean the people are any less dead. Did you read the link provided from the World Health Organization? Compare cost/benefit ratios in terms of both lives and money, of all the ways there are to make the power we need, and nuclear power is looks pretty good, all things considered. I like electricity as much as the next person, but the victims of Chernobyl would beg to differ with you...and maybe there are a even some Japanese that are having second thoughts. P.S. Any thoughts on what we do with the highly toxic waste that will be around for 50,000 years or so? Do we have enough rugs to sweep it under? You didn't read the fourth link did you. It's rather long and involved, but it's a new design that deals with the problems faced by conventional pressurized water plants. It operates at a higher temperature but a lower pressure. It's sodium cooled so there aren't the corrosion problems associated water in a plant. The secondary side gas is CO2 which drives a turbine with no condenser so no cooling towers or large body of water like an ocean are required. Water vapor (which is a significant greenhouse gas) from conventional systems puts a lot heat into the environment, this plant doesn't. It has a reprocessing facility which recovers unused fuel from spent fuel elements and makes new ones from it. Spent fuel elements only exhaust about 20% of the fuel in them, so there is a large amount of it ready to be recovered at plants around the world. Fission products from the spent fuel are formed into rods and placed as a ring around the inner core and left there as the reactor operates in it's next cycle for the life of the fuel, about a year. The elements, principally Cesium 137 and Iodine 131, are broken down by radiation into smaller elements which are either stable or have short half lives with lower energy emissions. These can be safely shipped and stored with existing technology like we do with low level waste. This process has been proven in the laboratory to work. It eliminates shipping dangerous and toxic materials that can be used for bomb making because anything useful is consumed on site. Build one next door to an existing plant and use up all that fuel that's been just sitting there for decades. A plant like this could run for years on what's there. Bill Smith Thorium reactors have solved most of these problems for awhile now. How many are in operation? I'm well aware of thorium as a reactor fuel, but it doesn't solve the problem of decades worth of spent fuel we have to get rid of somehow. using the uranium and plutonium that's just lying there and reducing the high level waste seems a worthy reason to build burner reactors. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *Bill Smith Actually, a Thorium reactor built properly can "burn" spent fuel from Pu/U235 reactors. It's own waste is only "bad" for a couple hundred years vs. tens of thousands, much more manageable. The Navy had them working in the 1950s, but probably because they did not produce weapons grade material, they were not widely developed. There are some in private corporate use today; France, India, Russia and China are planning on building a batch of them in the next 10 years. India is rolling in Thorium, but it's pretty common elsewhere too - the US has a supply for about 1000 years give or take...long enough to get us solar and fusion and anything we want. |
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