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2006-08-01 Science & Technology

Asia Goes Nuclear to Meet Rising Energy Demands

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Posted by john 2006-08-01 09:16|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 What a good idea. I wonder why it never occurred to us?

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-08-01 10:24|| 2006-08-01 10:24|| Front Page Top

#2 Environuts would rather see us enslaved to the likes of Saudi Arabia and Iran then see another nuclear power plant (or refinary or oil platform...)

Posted by CrazyFool 2006-08-01 10:28|| 2006-08-01 10:28|| Front Page Top

#3 Petroleum constitutes only 1.6% of the fuel used for power generation in the US. Nuclear will do nothing to dent our dependence on oil which is used primarily for transportation, unless we suddenly move to electirc vehicles by legislative fiat. As long as you drive your car, you'll be paying Ruskies & Muslims to do it.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-08-01 10:33|| 2006-08-01 10:33|| Front Page Top

#4 Your right NS. We are still being prevented from building nuclear plants due to 'enviromental' concerns. By 'environental' I mean junk Gore-class science and not real 'solid' enviromental science.

Posted by CrazyFool 2006-08-01 10:50|| 2006-08-01 10:50|| Front Page Top

#5 Nuclear isn't the solution, but it's part of it. There's still plenty of low hanging fruit in the US energy picture. Nuclear energy and drilling ANWR and the OCS come to mind.

Posted by Iblis">Iblis 2006-08-01 12:29|| 2006-08-01 12:29|| Front Page Top

#6 I believe I heard that US has 16 projects ready to enter application process. If we would get off our ass and get reproceesing cycles back on stream we could burn about 95% of the fuel using secondary burn cycles in fast reactors. Storage issues which all the envirno touchy feelies concentrate on would be minimal.

Posted by SOP35/Rat 2006-08-01 12:30|| 2006-08-01 12:30|| Front Page Top

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