We Are Rich!
The used once fuel from CANDU reactors in Canada is a vast energy reserve. We now know how to build fast reactors that can utilize it. There is enough energy held in this fuel to provide all of Canada's energy needs for a hundred years. That is a century of clean, free energy without any need for mining - completely clean energy without any green house gas emissions of any kind. None. Anyone who uses the word "waste" to refer to this uranium treasure is an environmental criminal.
My "complaint" is about organizations such as the NWMO which uses the w-word in its title, for goodness sake! The waste concept was invented in the US to create legal and technical problems for the nuclear industry. Carbon industry lobbyists wanted to keep this new technology hobbled so it would not affect their profits. I see no reason for Canadian institutions to get involved in this waste silliness. We have a stored uranium treasure. We are rich! We should be celebrating!
Instead of a Deep Geological Repository we should set up an Energy Cleanliness Laboratory. This exciting research facility would provide lots of high paying jobs for researchers who will study and develop the cleanest energy possible. One of the resources provided to this laboratory will be a uranium treasure worth 10,000 billion dollars which would be donated by the Canadian government. This fantastic opportunity to make a real contribution to solving the global warming crisis would be an economic miracle for the community that wins the bid to host it. As an incentive every citizen in the winning bid community should receive a $100,000 bonus award, tax free.
If we build a fast reactor at the Energy Cleanliness Laboratory site then the used once fuel from our CANDU reactors could be consumed in the fast reactor. The profits from the electricity sold from the fast reactor could be used to dig a vault and pay for the fast reactor. That gives us a free vault. The waste from the fast reactor is truly waste - it does not have any energy production value using fission. It could be stored in the vault. It has a short half life for radioactivity, so within 200 years the vault level will be below background levels. Looks to me like the "waste" problem is easily solved for nuclear energy.
So let's move on to something difficult, like global warming.
For another positive view see:
Why The French Like Nuclear Energy
My "complaint" is about organizations such as the NWMO which uses the w-word in its title, for goodness sake! The waste concept was invented in the US to create legal and technical problems for the nuclear industry. Carbon industry lobbyists wanted to keep this new technology hobbled so it would not affect their profits. I see no reason for Canadian institutions to get involved in this waste silliness. We have a stored uranium treasure. We are rich! We should be celebrating!
Instead of a Deep Geological Repository we should set up an Energy Cleanliness Laboratory. This exciting research facility would provide lots of high paying jobs for researchers who will study and develop the cleanest energy possible. One of the resources provided to this laboratory will be a uranium treasure worth 10,000 billion dollars which would be donated by the Canadian government. This fantastic opportunity to make a real contribution to solving the global warming crisis would be an economic miracle for the community that wins the bid to host it. As an incentive every citizen in the winning bid community should receive a $100,000 bonus award, tax free.
If we build a fast reactor at the Energy Cleanliness Laboratory site then the used once fuel from our CANDU reactors could be consumed in the fast reactor. The profits from the electricity sold from the fast reactor could be used to dig a vault and pay for the fast reactor. That gives us a free vault. The waste from the fast reactor is truly waste - it does not have any energy production value using fission. It could be stored in the vault. It has a short half life for radioactivity, so within 200 years the vault level will be below background levels. Looks to me like the "waste" problem is easily solved for nuclear energy.
So let's move on to something difficult, like global warming.
For another positive view see:
Why The French Like Nuclear Energy
3 Comments:
I share your sentiments about finding cleaner energy and stopping global warming, but I am at pains to understand your post...
I suggest writting like your explaining something to someone who doesn't know what your talking about... and then the message will come across more powerful... (help me with those acrynms as well... CANDU? NWMO?).
keep on keepin on with the environment posts though... check out my blog for some interesting articles, links, posts too!
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Thomas, at 20 June, 2005 20:37
Since you are from Canada, maybe you can shed some light on a company called Innovative Energy Solutions inc, or iESi. I understand they have partnered with Norwood Foundry of Alberta to build a power generation plant using clean energy technology. They claim their (low cost) heat generation technology will eliminate the need for fossil fuel. In researching IESIUSA I find mention of "cold fusion" as part of their technology. Any substance here?
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Anonymous, at 27 June, 2005 14:34
If you like the uranium deposits of Canada, then you'll LOVE the thorium deposits. With the liquid-fluoride reactor, instead of lasting for a hundred years, the thorium deposits will last you for tens of thousands of years. Learn more at:
http://thoriumenergy.blogspot.com/
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Anonymous, at 21 May, 2006 21:29
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