Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Nuclear

[LarryT (l02turner]

In the '80s we were building a Breeder Reactor which would have used the 
waste from other reactors.  It was being built near Oak Ridge Tn in a size 
that would prove it a viable way to reuse waste rods - after spending $1.5B 
on equipment, building the nclear mat (where the containment bldg would 
sit). access roads, settlement ponds, then fighting the environmentalist in 
court, we were set to start the real construction.  We also had our own 
concrete plant on the site and huge rock crushers to deal with the rocks we 
dug up so they could be used as aggregate in the concrete.  We had done a 
lot of work - bought and delivered 95% of the major equipment and needed 
another $1B to complete the project.

Then the nitwits inside the beltway got involved & stopped funding.  One 
particularily bright Senator said "we don't know what to do with all the 
waste material we have now, so we should not make more"   Well, Duh!  This 
reactor would have *used* all that waste to make electricity!  What a moron. 
Another bright light in congress offered these words of intelligence "we 
don;t need the electricity."   When in fact we only added the turbines and 
other equipment that would allow the production of electricity to prove the 
project would produce electricity and to provide income once the project was 
built.  It would hve been dumb to build it, prove it would work in a 
commercial sized venture then not do any more with it.  If it didn;t make 
electricity it would have become an expensive paper weight.

Yep, I would have dearly loved to see the US move in the direction of 
breeder reactors instead of the Boiling Water Reactors (BWR's)  - things 
would be dramatically different today.

There's more stuff surrounding this issue but it;s old news and few are 
interested.

Have a noce Sunday -

Larry T (66 MGB, 74 911, 91 300D)
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Bennett" <pbennett [at] macnet.com>
To: "Larry Turner" <l02turner [at] comcast.net>
Cc: "The FerrariList" <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>
Sent: Sunday, August 10, 2008 3:51 AM
Subject: Re: [Ferrari] Nuclear


> >Question for our group - what is "the other way" to design a
> > nuclear plant.
>
> France uses the technique of refining their waste for reuse, getting 98%
> of the energy out of the fuel rods, virtually elliminating waste.  Our 
> design
> skims the top 20% after which we store the rods as waste.  US total waste
> now amounts to the size of a football field 6 feet high and is about one
> coke can per person of waste for the total lifetime of all nuke reactors.
> Chernoble killed 63 people, the predicted cancers from fallout never 
> happened.
> You get more radiation from a banana than from living next to a reactor.
> But not in my backyard.  Read Power to Save the World: The Truth About
> Nuclear Energy by Gwynth Cravens
>
>
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