Fission is the New Fire

Google Tech Talks
April 16, 2007

ABSTRACT


There are many common misconceptions about nuclear power that can be proven to be false, even among people with a variety of opinions. For example, it is often stated that nuclear power plants are very large and cost at least a couple of billion dollars. However, ever since there have been nuclear power plants, there have been some that have been small enough to fit inside submarines. One of those submarines is only 12 feet in diameter and could fit on half of a football field. It has also been said that nuclear power plants must operate at a nearly constant power level, yet they can power both submarines and aircraft carriers through extreme maneuvers....

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[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?

[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

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[EXITUS01]

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[jjflashman51]

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