2001-11-3 03:37:00
I want to welcome Susan Hahn to the group. We hope to hear more of you.
And Larry, you are a saint in working with a fundamentalist. If you reach him with logic and reason, or the Holy Spirit, you will have accomplished much.
"We are limited in the amount of uranium that we can mine. Since we have only about thirty years supply available, we might as well just give up now and cease the building of any new nuclear reactors."
This is another extremely deceptive statement. Activists are using the low side of estimated known reserves that can be easily mined. Most experts see the
figure as closer to 50 years. Does this mean that we have only 30-50 years worth of nuclear fuel available and then that will be it? Then no more nuclear
energy will even be available?
For one thing, if the activists really believed this they would be jumping with glee that we will run out of fuel in 30 years and encourage us to burn it
up as soon as possible. Then they would achieve their goal of a non-nuclear world.
The fact is that they know the only way to stop nuclear power is through deceit, through litigation, through manipulating public opinion and unfounded fears
in the hope of bring the industry to a stand still. They know that if they are not successful in doing this then there is plenty of nuclear fuel to last for
thousands of years and they will look like fools in the eyes of future generations for their current protests.
So how then can we have thousands of year's supply of fuel available when we are told there are only a few decades of reserves left to mine?
Answer: Several reasons. First projections are based upon known reserves. History has proven there are always many unknown reserves.
Consider this -- Since the 1950's the estimate of known uranium reserves have increased by a factor of one thousand times! If then the early projections were
off by a factor of 1000 -- the question becomes -- how much are we off now?
If we are merely off by a factor of ten this time we would have enough for another 500 years using present methods.
This does not even take into consideration the fact that technology will continue to advance, and that we may develop methods of deep earth exploration
that could reveal a thousand times what we project today in reserves.
In addition to this, uranium may be extracted from the waste of our coal fired plants. But, in addition to this, we have untold reserves available as an
ingredient in sea water.
It is estimated that there are five billion tons of uranium in the oceans -- enough for a very long time to come.
Currently the cost of uranium is only about 5% of the cost of electricity generated. We could pay ten times as much for more expensive extraction methods
and the cost of electricity generated would still be competitive.
All this takes into account that we would continue nuclear processing using our current primitive methods.
If we switch to breeder reactors we would basically create an infinite supply of energy with the reserves we currently have available.
A breeder reactor is called so because it breeds -- meaning it gives birth to more fuel than it consumes.
We have heard dreams of perpetual motion machines for thousands of years, but we seem to have that available now. If, in the process of generating electricity
through nuclear fuels which create more fuel than they burn, then we have something very close to perpetual energy.
Technically it is not perpetual -- but very close to it, and it is obvious that these breeder reactors are a key to unlimited economical and clean fuel for as
long as we need it.
Unfortunately, nuclear activists have succeeded in spooking the public as well as many in Congress to the extent that they made it against the law to
build them.
Next: The deception that brought technology to a standstill.
-- End Of Part Five --
"I have been the artist with the longest career and I am so proud and honored to be chosen from heaven to be invincible."
-- Michael Jackson (spoken on Oct, 2001)
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