Scott Erb wrote:
>
> On Jul 8, 9:55 pm, "Bill Bonde { ''Soylent Diesel is People'')"
> <tributyltinpa...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > Jeffrey Turner wrote:
>
> > > We'd have to build hundreds of nuclear reactors, and there isn't
enough
> > > fuel for them. Nor all the coolant necessary. And no place to put
the
> > > waste.
> >
> > This has been explained to you over and over and over again. You
> > are wrong. There is plenty of fuel. Water is the coolant. And the
> > waste gets buried in a mountain. End of problem.
>
> You're contradicting the literature out there on nuclear energy and
> uranium. You need to back up your claim or else there is no reason
> for Jeffrey or anyone else to accept it.
>
You don't say what the claim is that are taking issue with. The
last time we discussed nuclear power, I suggested your read
"Megawatts and Megatons: A Turning Point in the Nuclear Age?".
http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0375403949/ref=sib_dp_srch_pop?v=search-inside&keywords=thorium&go.x=8&go.y=9&go=Go!
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.. on Page 151:
"... all the more so, since it may be possible to adopt a nuclear
chain reaction based on thorium rather than uranium, which would
avoid the production of most of the long-lived heavy metals under
operating conditions that promise ..."
4. on Page 154:
"... The Rubbia system is to burn thorium, whose terrestrial
reserves are three times more abundant than those of uranium. ..."
5. on Page 155:
"... A Glimpse o f the Future o f Nuclear Power breeder with the
thorium-232/uranium-233 cycle than with the uranium-238/
plutonium-239 approach. There are barely enough neutrons liberated
per fission in uranium-233 to use one ..."
6. on Page 157:
"... When thorium is added as fertile material, so that the fissile
uranium-233 constitutes only about io% of the core and thorium 9o%,
...."
7. on Page 159:
"... the radioactivity of the waste is less than that of coal ash
(coal always contains a bit of uranium and thorium). ..."
8. on Page 162:
"... a light-water reactor. Besides, there is no need to separate
the fissionable material (that is, the uranium -233) from the
thorium; the heavy elements can be kept together. ..."
9. on Page 164:
"... This might be uranium-233 plus thorium; or plutonium -239 plus
uranium-238 could maintain criticality without using the
accelerator. One could consider mixed-oxide fuel of plutonium and
...."
10. on Page 165:
"... with fuel for only ten years. The solution commonly considered
would be "breeding," using as fuel either uranium-238 or natural
thorium, thorium-232. But it is im****tant to realize that, in
general, resources far exceed the quoted "reserves. ..."
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