I wholeheartedly agree!
Of all the nuclear (power generation) capable nations, the U.S. is the only
nation to NOT re-process its spent fuel.
The irony is that the U.S. pioneered that technology in the late 1960s, but
because of a knee-jerk reaction to the Iranian hostage crisis during the
Carter
I think Robin got the short end of the stick on that. Clark got both the
opening say AND the closing say. I think that Robin should have had the chance
to say that metrication of the UK is NOT an EU thing - which is where I thought
the dialogue was going. Unfortunately, it stopped somewhat sh
Realistically, the uranium should last long enough for us to figure out
controlled fusions (hundreds to a few thousand years).
This will be especially true if we reprocess fuel rods (which are now mostly
wasted). The present design requires them to be removed when only a few
percent of the fi
I figure USMA folks would find this interesting (taken from UKMA web site at
http://ukma.org.uk):
http://www.youtube.com/UKMetric#p/c/04DE7CACFA86D7A4/0/LQpc7BMi1bE
-- Ezra
Well, there are a few myths being propagated for one reason or another, and
there are some corrections and clarifications that are desperately needed.
Despite what the popular press says about impending oil depletion, the
United States Geologic Survey (USGS) has confirmed that Bakken oil deposit
OK, then, tell us what we do when all the coal and oil is burned up. And even
uranium is finite. What then? Humanity does intend to stay around for more
than the next 100-200 years.
Carleton
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