Fission is the New Fire

[Anarchyson1]

It was interesting, I tried to search about fukashima and got like one page of information, And only once I had clicked stop omitting information did this show up, Google is evil, NAZIS! NAZIS! NAZIS!! What does google do in china? Hmm? It's a tool to oppress people, What makes ANY of you RETARDS think that if the law's would change here it would not end up in the same.

[fteoOpty64]

If you could only STAND outside Rector 1 building in Fukushima for30 mins, I wonder what your TTL is ?. Take your lousy tech and go down that infinite hole we do not call earth.

[wwwonderful]

Ask the people in and around Fukushima

[jjflashman51]

what about the nuclear waste? Its not safe. what do we do about that? why not focus on wind or solar energy?

[soylentgreenb]

"what about the nuclear waste? Its not safe. what do we do about that?"

KBS-3 or dry-cask storage until we reprocess and reuse in breeder reactors.

"why not focus on wind or solar energy?"

Because the electric grid is not like a bank. Transmission, not generation, is the most difficult and costly task and wind and solar make this enormously harder; forcing you to build a grid more like the worlds largest Rube Goldberg machine.

[EXITUS01]

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[usbiker133t]

shut up with nuclear fire you retard.

[milofonbil]

Be sure to call DrBuzzo a retard. He is the one that likened nuclear energy to a re-discovery of fire. I was merely following up on his post.

I was pointing out that I can do just fine in getting my own electricity and did not need a nuclear power plant in order to do that.

[milofonbil]

It's interesting to note that not many people know how to start and harness a nuclear fire. Nuclear fire requires a constant input of uranium and that uranium is pretty limited and it follows that by pushing nuclear power, corporations get more and more control over your electricity. But you don't have to have a nuclear fire in order to harness your own electricity. Many of the renewable sources are available to individuals and there are no fuel costs.

[soylentgreenb]

"uranium is pretty limited"

It's about as common as tin and it's a very small part of the cost of nuclear power. See Deffeyes and McGreggor for the uranium distribution in the Earth. Going down in ore grade by a factor 10 would be tolerable(cost wise) and would unlock roughly 300 times more uranium than has yet been mined as well as uranium from sea water.

[milofonbil]

Deffeye and McGregor's paper talks about the distribution of Uranium. Have you actually read the Scientific American article? If you had, you would understand that uranium ores under 750ppm are not economically recoverable. Granted, there is plenty of uranium. But as they point out in the paper, if you could tolerate even less concentrated ore, there would be 300 times as much.

The uranium from sea water takes far too many resources to even recover 1kg and is certainly not scalable.

[soylentgreenb]

"If you had, you would understand that uranium ores under 750ppm are not economically recoverable."

You've been reading that slime bag Storm van Leeuwen haven't you?

You are dead wrong. We're already producing uranium cost effectively below 750 ppm(e.g. Rössing, Namibia ~300 ppm; only uranium with no coproducts). The lying dutchman would have you believe it takes more energy than the entire country of Namibia consumes to mine this uranium, he's wrong by two orders of magnitude.

[soylentgreenb]

It's obvious that we're going to mine the easy stuff first because we can do it so cheaply no other source can compete; but this is not an indicator of what will ultimately be economical to mine.

Back when we weren't awash in dirt cheap uranium from decomissioned nukes we also co-produced uranium from phosphate rock at well below 100 ppm.

[milofonbil]

I read that the cut-off for Roessing was 250ppm. Several of your bore-holes are close, so I don't know how much longer Roessing can produce economically. But the good news is that Namibia is opening about 8 new mines in the area that will probably be productive now that uranium prices are a bit higher now.

[milofonbil]

It does look like they are mining a shallow open pit in Roessing and at very low grades. RRC126 1042 ppm RRC127 339 ppm RRC129 514 ppm RRC132 416 ppm RRC150 600 ppm RRC153 394 ppm RRC173 370 ppm Labor rates are low and the pit is shallow. Current electric consumption in a year in Namibia is 3.194 billion kWh. And, they are building a new 800-MW coal-fired power plant to power the uranium mines. It will provide about 6.3 Billion kwh per year. It looks like you are both right.

[zassounotsukushi]

I love how this one says Google Confidential.

I loled.

[rj77nz]

Great vid

[DrBuzz0]

When mankind first discovered fire, (s)he saw it as a tool and also saw how it could burn, destroy and harm. But mankind did not fear fire, and build civilization with it's power, it's light, to forge metal and produce energy.

In 1943 mankind discovered a new energy. In 1945 (s)he saw that it could destroy and harm.

Now, shall we run in fear from it? Or take take the next great step toward the future?