Posted on 07/23/2002 12:59:13 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
US Nuclear Power Debate
... The Bush administration also wants to explore new technology to recycle nuclear
fuel, increasing its efficiency and possibly reducing its danger. ...
Other info:
Numatec - the Tri-Cities' 'French connection'
... Numatec other parent is Cogema, the owner and operator of facilities used to produce
and recycle nuclear fuel, including many designed and built by SGN. ...
Nuclear Electricity
... gas equivalent). • Uranium offers a long-term source of energy. Unlike
fossil fuels, we can recycle nuclear fuel. We can recover ...
[MMA Alumni] Helping out MMA Nuclear Employed Alumni
... Many MMA Grads are employed in the Nuclear Power industry, ever since President Carter
killed the national plans to recycle nuclear fuel as was always intended ...
[PDF] U. S. Nuclear Waste Policy: Reaching Critical Mass
File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTML
... An Aside: Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing Overseas In addition to the United States,
only two other countries don't recycle nuclear fuel as a matter of national ...
Salon.com Technology | Nukes now!
... Other countries, such as Japan and France -- which gets about 80 percent of its
electricity from nuclear power -- recycle nuclear fuel, but President Ford ...
No matter how advanced, every reactor produces some waste; it's an inevitable aspect of the periodic table. Without the government honoring its decades-old commitment to receive and dispose of that waste, building new reactors (no matter how theoretically efficient) was legally and financially impossible. It's the opposition to Yucca Mountain, and the opposition to nuclear power in general, that has delayed those new, safer, cleaner reactors. We'll still have to fight to get the new reactors built, but at least we can fight that battle now, rather than having to continually rehash an issue decided 20 years ago.
IMHO, current policy is basically producing an eventual Chernobyl here in the US. We ought to be laying that at the feet of the activists BEFORE the accident eventually happens.
I have no doubt that he was the first major Rat bought out by the Opecker Princes to enable them, make us more dependent on Opecker Oil and to kick start the enviral movement that really made us dependent on Opecker oil:(Link to how the Opecker Princes bought out Carter a long time ago)
Huh?
Sorry!
Thats a heck of an idea you have there! LOL 'Course, the UN building is alot closer......LOL
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