The US had a program that was developing a nuke plant that would run of off
spent fuel rods and weapons-grade plutonium. Kerry led the charge to shut it
down. I was watching Nova and they said that a Japanese company (mitsubishi
IIRC) had gobbled up the research and were planning on bringing it to market as
a commercial venture.
I guess it made to much sense to our gov't.
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----- Reply message -----
From: "Steven Guterman" <an5.sprite at gmail.com>
Date: Mon, May 9, 2011 10:26 am
Subject: [Spridgets] Re Renewable energy (off topic)
To: "Kurt Appley" <kmappley at gmail.com>
Cc: <spridgets at autox.team.net>
Agreed,
The storing of the waste is why I do not like nuclear plants. The half life
if plutonium is 250,000 years. All human written history is 5,000 years.
No one has a clue how expensive it will be to store all the waste.
On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 9:45 AM, Kurt Appley <kmappley at gmail.com> wrote:
> Jim--I meant to be just as hard on the D party. The same big money elects
> them both!!
> The fact is that there have been three fairly major nuclear accidents all
> at
> plants designed by the best and brightest who supposedly took every
> possible
> problem into consideration. As one writer said after the latest accident it
> will simply be a matter of time before some country becomes uninhabitable
> because of a nuclear accident.
> Then there is the matter of nuclear waste. Something that will remain a
> deadly poison to all life for tens of thousands of years. If the US
> goverment [read that us] had'nt agreed to accept all nuclear waste in the
> 50's there would have never have been a nuclear plant built!
> BTW the US goverment [us!] are paying the nuclear plants for storing this
> crap!!!!!
>
> Kurt.
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