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"Nuclear Energy: A Green Makes the Case"

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An interesting article from the Washington Post. He makes some good points:

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Perhaps I'll read the article later, but as far as I'm concerned, Nuclear energy is the cleanest energy available today. It's rather backwards that the US hasn't invested in it more as a means of generating power. Still, an ideal nuclear power plant would utilize fusion and not fission. When that becomes available and safe, that's what I'd rather see us move towards.

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Originally posted by: Tiptup
Perhaps I'll read the article later, but as far as I'm concerned, Nuclear energy is the cleanest energy available today. It's rather backwards that the US hasn't invested in it more as a means of generating power. Still, an ideal nuclear power plant would utilize fusion and not fission. When that becomes available and safe, that's what I'd rather see us move towards.


I'm just impressed as hell that the U.S. is going to start recycling spent fuel. The article states that 95% of fuel can be recycled. It's unbelievable that France is beating the U.S. in nuclear energy.
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An interesting article indeed!

But I don't understand this:
"Within 40 years, used fuel has less than one-thousandth of the radioactivity it had when it was removed from the reactor."
If the half-life of Uranium (or whatever fuel is used) is thousands of years how the hell can the radiation of the waste products decrease to less than one-thousandth in 40 years?

Also, the article doesn't say how "easy" it is to mine nuclear fuel and how much energy it costs. It would be interesting to know how much of a reserve there is.
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Originally posted by: JediSage
I'm just impressed as hell that the U.S. is going to start recycling spent fuel. The article states that 95% of fuel can be recycled. It's unbelievable that France is beating the U.S. in nuclear energy.


Yeah, I know that the idea of recycling nuclear fuel has been around for a long time. I wasn't aware that there were major plans for us to begin doing that here though.

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