“Right from the beginning of the nuclear power industry, we have been assured that the technology is safe.”
And it was, and still is. It’s safer than fossil fuels, and (rather importantly) works.
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Posted on June 3, 2007 by Stewart Peterson | 0 Comments »
“ASLB rejects new contentions…but not on their merits”
…on the fact that they were being used as a deliberate delaying tactic.
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Posted on June 1, 2007 by Stewart Peterson | 0 Comments »
“Nuclear or Geothermal power plants? Neither.”
-’amazngdrx‘
Geothermal energy comes from the heat given off when radiation from natural radioactive materials inside the Earth is absorbed by nearby rock or other materials. So it is actually a kind of nuclear power.
It is more commonly grouped with wind and solar under the banner of “renewable energy,” but this quote goes to show that “renewable” actually means “unfeasible.” When they realize that geothermal energy might in fact work, it becomes scum, the enemy of the environment. Energy allows us to do things, so if the objective is to starve polluting processes so that they can’t operate (a perfectly reasonable and understandable tactic), any functional energy source must be opposed, existing ones must be made as expensive as possible, and the depletion of reserves must be sped up–with a ban on exploration for new supplies–until there is no alternative but to revert to the solar-powered 1600-vintage “happy peasant lifestyle.” A lifestyle, I might add, which would have killed me at birth.
Thus, I ain’t too happy about proposals like this. I can put two and two together, and I like my energy. To quote one of the store designs (itself a quote):
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Posted on May 31, 2007 by Stewart Peterson | 0 Comments »
“But the UK has a potential solution. British Nuclear Fuels Limited (BNFL) operates a spent fuel reprocessing facility at Sellafield on the west coast of Wales, where it extracts uranium and plutonium. Should Amergen and Entergy become able to ship spent fuel rods from their U.S. nukes to Sellafield, what is now useless radwaste will be worth billions.”
Is there something wrong with separating what is actually waste from unused nuclear fuel? Does making money from it make it bad?
BTW…Sellafield is in Cumbria…and Cumbria is in England, not Wales.
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Posted on May 30, 2007 by Stewart Peterson | 0 Comments »
“These [decommissioning] funds are tax exempt so long as they are held by a state regulated utility. But when they transfer to non-regulated corporations like Amergen and Entergy, under present law they become taxable. So these corporations have been lobbying the IRS and Congress, so far unsuccessfully, to change the law so they won’t have to pay these taxes. They stand to avoid paying $1 billion in taxes should they succeed.”
And…why should the IRS take money set aside by law for cleanup?
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Posted on May 30, 2007 by Stewart Peterson | 0 Comments »
“The sound waves penetrate the tank and the Helium Atoms are heated up and then they bounce into each other causing heat and get very hot by the agitation caused by the sound wave bombardment. This will make heat and with an interior of the tank coated with ceramic coating it will get really hot and stay hot, that heat can then be used to run a coil through the center filled with water which will be your basic steam generator on the exterior, which spins an electric motor. Therefore any power lost from the transmission line is recaptured and therefore there is no loss.
These little tanks can be placed on the ground, prevent that horrible noise that [expletive deleted] of [sic] people and hurts the wild life and disorients them from their normal and natural life cycles and daily patterns. The heat is used, the sound is used and we all win. If you have an idea, which is similar or based upon a similar concept, then maybe you should join a group of thinkers who do not close their minds, turn them off, think out side the box and would like to meet people like you.”
-Power Lines Should Never Be Wasted
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Posted on May 29, 2007 by Stewart Peterson | 0 Comments »
“It is necessary that such a research will be undertaken by scientists independent of industrials. This is not the case today, the assessments of the Chernobyl disaster reach us only through the filter of powerful pronuclear organizations.”
-Commission de Recherche et d’Information Indépendantes sur la Radioactivité
Pro-nuclear, meaning anyone who does not have a pre-existing political agenda to kill off nuclear power?
And the idea that pro-nuclear organizations–not the industry, whose agenda is to ensure that their paychecks keep coming, but pro-nuclear organizations, whose agenda is the promotion of nuclear technology–are powerful is ludicrous. For example, if NIOF were to send a representative to the WNA Symposium in September (which we’re considering doing, only to suggest that the industry not step on our toes or put their feet in their mouths while we try to organize students), we would have serious problems putting an airline ticket together. We as a movement have skilled people to a certain extent, but we’re not rich by any means and aren’t organized politically. The power is in the politically savvy, well-organized, litigious, and vicious anti-nuclear movement and its allies in the renewables (and to a lesser extent, the fossil fuel) industries.
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Posted on May 28, 2007 by Stewart Peterson | 0 Comments »
“The worst result thus far of these cost cutting practices occurred at BE’s Hunterston B nuclear station in Scotland. A loss of power accident there threatened to turn into a Chernobyl-scale disaster, due in great part to understaffing.”
A power outage is not going to turn into Chernobyl, not because of staffing, but because of physics. Hunterston B is not Chernobyl, doesn’t work like Chernobyl, and can’t experience a Chernobyl-scale accident.
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Posted on May 27, 2007 by Stewart Peterson | 0 Comments »
“Stop Hinkley is dedicated to the removal of nuclear reactors from the Bristol Channel and the Severn Estuary and is committed to the introduction of greener technologies more appropriate to the new millennium.”
Those “greener technologies” were our first energy sources and belong in the dustbin of history.
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Posted on May 26, 2007 by Stewart Peterson | 0 Comments »
“The internal report from the FKA reveals that the incident (amongst other things) has to do with a continuous degradation in the security culture at the plant.”
Why should nuclear power plants have a security culture? They’re not an army base.
There should be a culture of transparency and openness to the public they serve–it’s not as though there are any security secrets.
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Posted on May 25, 2007 by Stewart Peterson | 0 Comments »
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