[Spridgets] Re Renewable energy (off topic)

[Jim Johnson]

An excellent perspective on the *real* problem, Bob.  I agree completely!

Cheers!!
Jim

On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 9:59 AM, Kitterer Bob <bkitterer at me.com> wrote:

> I am a little late getting on this subject but here is a little history.
>  In the late 1950's early 1960's some of the top nuclear scientist and
> nuclear power plant designers were telling the government that nuclear power
> was just a stop gap measure to get us to the year 2000.  That by then we
> needed to have developed alternative sources for electrical power.  Of
> course this did not happen.
>
> Spent fuel was the big driver behind this position, it has been a
> recognized problem from the start.  In more recent years an exceptionally
> safe storage facility was getting ready to start but many states passed laws
> prohibiting them movement of radioactive materials so it came to a halt.
>  More over this meant that not only reactor facilities had to store spent
> fuel rods but other contaminated waste.  This is (was) true for hospitals
> and any other facility using any form of radioactive material.  The biggest
> salvation for the medical use is that scientist were able to come up with
> radio isotopes with very short half life's (hours).
>
> The horror reporters comments such as the one quote is one of the biggest
> reasons that logical, sane approaches and solutions can not get by the
> voting public.  I am reminded of the editorials and cartoons a few centuries
> back when the first of some really big cannons were being built.  These
> proclaimed that the noise from the cannons would cause the earth to split
> apart.  How ridicules are we going to look down the road because we let
> horror stories keep us from finding and moving forward with good solutions.
>
> Just my 2 cents from being in this industry 50 years ago.
>
> Bob Kitterer
>
> 1960 Austin Healey Sprite (Mk IV in disguise) - in storage
> 1966 Austin Healey Sprite Mk III (Trevor) - still in boxes - in storage
>
> On May 9, 2011, at 6:45 AM, Kurt Appley wrote:
> >
> > 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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