Atomic Energy - It's Worth A Lot

Rod Adams, President, Adams Atomic Engines, In. responds to "Stop the Nuclear Bailout" from nukefree.org

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[atomicrod59]

BeondaPale

I have been advocating the use of smaller nuclear plants for at least 15 years in public forums. The first article I published on the topic was in April, 1995.

For the record, I am a former nuclear submarine engineer officer. I gained my nuclear knowledge operating smaller nuclear plants.

[atomicrod59]

milofonbil:

I never blame Environmentalists - I blame fossil fuel interests and even some established "nuclear industry" interests for placing as many barriers to entry as possible.

In one example - licensing the reactors that I have been working on for 17 years requires me to pay the government $258 for every hour that they spend in the review process. I get no say in how long they spend. They do not even provide a checklist of all of the standards we have to meet.

[BeondaPale]

@pauloz386

"The sun is Nuclear."

-- True - But the sun is 93 millions miles away

"Solar panels are expensive and ineffective to supply base load requirements"

- Untrue, please Google:"solar cheaper than oil and nuclear in 5 years" and "artificial photosynthesis"

"Solar= expensive, space hungry energy"

-- You're wrong. NANO solar is very different and is the future.

[BeondaPale]

I wonder if Rod knows that small Nuclear power plants (found on subs and aircraft carriers) are much much better and much less dangerous than the vastly enlarged commercial nuclear power plants like the ones that failed in Fukushima

[disigny]

Everyone who advocates Nuclear Fission power should face the fact that the public has lost a lot of trust in "experts" telling them that something scary is safe, from smoking to LWR nuclear plants; the more uneducated they are, the more difficult to have a rational discussion. It is my( very recent) information that Thorium LFTR plants, which have been developed and demonstrated, can be said to be "failsafe" in the sense that lwr plants can never be. Let's talk about that.

[jibbi4one]

Over half of environmentalists agree the only real way of preserving wildlife is to bury non recyclable high level nuclear waste in wildlife preserves.

Keep human activity away from wildlife.

[pauloz386]

Please learn about nuclear power, before discounting it. Nuclear power is as natural as water. The sun is Nuclear.

Environmentalists can't have it both ways, nuclear is clean and safe. Solar panels are expensive and ineffective to supply base load requirements, to steel works,cement works etc. Burning coal and fossil fuels is dirty and expensive, I would be more than happy to have a nuclear power station in my backyard, Nuclear = cheap clean power, Solar= expensive, space hungry energy.

[pippicat]

Cost is not the issue, because money is an artificial social construct. What matters most are the energy inputs. What is the Energy Returned on Energy Invested with uranium from seawater?

I suspect that the EROEI of nuclear power will limit it to a minor role in the coming transition away from fossil fuel.

[milofonbil]

The remaining toxic soup still contaminates the groundwater and nearby aquifers no matter what kind of acid, weak acid (CO2 is a weak acid) or oxygenation system you use. You know this Rod.

[milofonbil]

It's very interesting as to how pro-nukes are all for the free market until things cost money. Also, you blame everything bad on environmentalists.

It's fully possible for the nuclear industry to build a reprocessing plant right now. Reagan revoked a Carter executive order banning spent-fuel reprocessing. What is stopping you from building it??? Ahhh that's right, you did not get a 30 Billion dollar feeding trough. It's cheaper to burn uranium once-through so you don't reprocess.