Yeah, greenest only if you ignore the environmental/human/dollar costs of getting the uranium out of the ground and then you forget about that whole messy decommissioning component (which usually relies on the assumption that national government must ultimately underwrite/pick up the tab and is therefore free)—R
On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 6:13 PM, Owen Densmore <o...@backspaces.net> wrote: > From the "I Like Nukes" department we have new designs that look > interesting: > > http://news.yahoo.com/gates-discussing-nuclear-reactor-china-124722465.html > They run on depleted uranium and apparently are safer. > > Ironically, nukes are apparently the greenest critters around too. > > -- Owen > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org >
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