alt.energy.renewable

"bill" wrote in message
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> On Mar 24, 1:06 pm, T. Keating wrote:
>> On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 10:06:36 -0400, T. Keating
>> wrote:
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>> >On Sun, 16 Mar 2008 16:22:03 -0700 (PDT), bill
>> > wrote:
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>> >>> > The fact is that radioactive storage is a not an unsolved scientific
>> >>> > problem, it is an unsolved POLITICAL problem, and it is precisely the
>> >>> > anti-nukes who have made it so.
>>
>> >>> An "anti-nuke" being anyone who questions it?
>>
>> >>No, an anti-nuke being anyone who opposes it in defiance of reality.
>> >>In opposition to the opinions of every reactor engineer, waste storage
>> >>specialist, and nuclear physicist.
>>
>> >An anitnuke person is one who realizes,
>>
>> > That nearly all Uranium is bound up in complex ores which require
>> >large amounts of chemicals(H2SO4+others) to separate the U from the
>> >ore compound. As the highest grades of U ores are quickly being
>> >depleted and the amount of ore mining, plus correspondingly usage of
>> >chemicals used increases exponentially with more demand.
>>
>> > (to the point.. where it consume more energy to mine and separate
>> >than one receives,,, crossover point will occurring sometime in this
>> >century.)
>>
>> > That breeder reactors and those with similar design elements are
>> >extremely unsafe (pure metallic U or Pu, instead of a safer ceramic),
>> >molten metal coolants (to increase breeding ratio) have experienced
>> >many failures.. major radioactive releases. Windscale, Santa
>> >Suzanna, Fermi, Chernobyl.
>>
>> http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/01/27/180239
>> "Suppressed Video of Japanese Reactor Sodium Leak"
>>
>> http://wikileaks.org/wiki/The_Monju_nuclear_reactor_leak
>>
>> Need I say more.. a little extra water (liberating H2 gas and leading
>> to inevitable explosion/fire) (P.S.. If this leak had occured from
>> the primary coolant system, (instead of the secondary system), then
>> these men would have not lived to see the next weekend. )
>>
>> "Monju is soon going to be reopened. Has their habit of covering up--
>> which pushed Nishimura to suicide -- been improved? There doesn't seem
>> to be an attitude of attempting to reveal everything in court and
>> reflecting on what happened."
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>
> IOW, the very worst fast breeder accident you can find worldwide
> resulted in the reactor being offline for less than 3 years. No one
> hurt, no outside contamination. why'd you bother?

Wasn't Enrico Fermi a fast breeder. Ever read "We almost lost Detroit"?