> I think you'll find that many eco's on this list > like inheritly safe nukes. I'd love to get a couple of > the fuel balls from a gas reactor. All the energy I'd > need for 20 plus years with almost no pollution.
Uhhhh.....Jerry, Pray tell...How can you be so up on your efficiency and conversion ratios on so many fuel sources, but not know about the exhorbidantly phenomenal energy input and emissions outputs for processing nuclear fuels? In fact, when taking into consideration all mining, transportation and processing / enrichment energies for nuclear fuel, there is a greater consumption than if coal alone had been used to generate the same number of gigawatts. Not only is nuclear not energy efficient, it is not clean, as disposal remains a problem, water and atmospheric contamination and releases remain ongoing problems and coal is the primary fuel used to process nuclear fuels. Further more, in these not always so lucid United States, not one single reactor in the nation mirrors another. Therefore, emergency response teams essentially have to learn the individual characteristics of over 100 different animals. Even employees cannot go from one plant to the next without undergoing considerable re-training. Kinda' like kicking Henry Ford off the assembly line, bringing in truckloads of tricycle, bicycle, lawnmower, baby carriage, motorcycle and spinning wheels, willy nilly attaching them to Model Ts, with no two vehicles ever ending up the same. At least the Frogs had sense(?) enough to duplicate most of their plants, permitting staff and response teams to operate equally as proficiently in one as in any other. The real clincher? The US Department of Energy is perfectly prepared to permit new construction of nuclear plants using the same shotgun method - no mold - no pattern - no conformity in applied technology - and still maintaining an unflinching acceptance of inherantly dangerous Light Water Reactors (LWRs). Clean? Not a snowflake's chance in hell. And no level of cryogenics will make it so. Safe? Not much more than the Hindenberg. Todd Appal Energy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html 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/
