Comments on: Plutonium and the Return to Nuclear Power http://helian.net/blog/2009/06/20/nuclear-weapons/plutonium-and-the-return-to-nuclear-power/ The world as I see it Sat, 06 Mar 2010 15:01:28 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Michael Cipriani http://helian.net/blog/2009/06/20/nuclear-weapons/plutonium-and-the-return-to-nuclear-power/comment-page-1/#comment-549 Michael Cipriani Sat, 26 Dec 2009 06:19:37 +0000 http://helian.net/blog/?p=351#comment-549 We need more nuclear power plants in the US period. Why the american people allow a very small group of people hold back our generation of cheap safe energy is beyond me.Yucca mountain just completed has been close president Obama said it would never be used. I believe they want the Us to be on the same level as a third world country. Cheap energy is so very important to our way of life. The whole idea of the carbon foot print is a joke. It is just another way to control you, your loosing your freedoms everyday in every way. The idea of the smart grid, yea thats a super idea. I lived in England, the taxes there are unreal, look into it. Wake up people, We need more nuclear power plants until we find something that is better and cheaper for americans, screw the rest of the world...God Bless We need more nuclear power plants in the US period. Why the american people allow a very small group of people hold back our generation of cheap safe energy is beyond me.Yucca mountain just completed has been close president Obama said it would never be used. I believe they want the Us to be on the same level as a third world country. Cheap energy is so very important to our way of life. The whole idea of the carbon foot print is a joke. It is just another way to control you, your loosing your freedoms everyday in every way. The idea of the smart grid, yea thats a super idea. I lived in England, the taxes there are unreal, look into it. Wake up people, We need more nuclear power plants until we find something that is better and cheaper for americans, screw the rest of the world…God Bless

]]> By: Peter Rowberry http://helian.net/blog/2009/06/20/nuclear-weapons/plutonium-and-the-return-to-nuclear-power/comment-page-1/#comment-121 Peter Rowberry Sun, 21 Jun 2009 18:15:43 +0000 http://helian.net/blog/?p=351#comment-121 What's all this nonsense that nuclear has no carbon footprint? Mining the uranium, concentrating the fissile isotopes and transporting to the power station, as well as disposing of the spent fuel and waste, are all carbon intensive. Nuclear is low carbon but NOT no carbon! Even renewables carry a carbon cost, but much lower than nuclear. I agree that the risk of a terrorist group building a nuclear bomb is probably quite low, but the risk of them setting of a conventional explosion at a nuclear waste storage site, near to spent fuel for example, is a real risk, especially if that fuel is stored outside a containment vessel. What’s all this nonsense that nuclear has no carbon footprint? Mining the uranium, concentrating the fissile isotopes and transporting to the power station, as well as disposing of the spent fuel and waste, are all carbon intensive. Nuclear is low carbon but NOT no carbon! Even renewables carry a carbon cost, but much lower than nuclear.

I agree that the risk of a terrorist group building a nuclear bomb is probably quite low, but the risk of them setting of a conventional explosion at a nuclear waste storage site, near to spent fuel for example, is a real risk, especially if that fuel is stored outside a containment vessel.

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