On Dec 6, 8:06*am, wrote:
On Dec 5, 10:43*am, BobR wrote:





On Dec 5, 7:39*am, "HeyBub" wrote:

dpb wrote:
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And, of course, to be fair, compare them to any alternative mechanism
of generating equivalent power to the grid at equivalent or lower
cost and reliability. *(HINT: *these life cycle studies were done
exhaustively years ago. *While absolute numbers on the $$ values will
change w/ inflation, the relative rankings won't. *Nuclear wins
overall owing to the much smaller volume of material handled as
compared to coal, on other materials costs owing to the low density
output of the alternative sources.)

Right. Ten years of fuel for a nuclear reactor can be transported in one
truck.

The coal required for one power station involves uncountably many railroad
cars, trudging for a thousand miles (e.g., Montana to Chicago), with the
attendant mishaps expected in mining and transporting such a huge amount of
stuff.

Your arguments are starting to sound like the age old question of
rather you perfer to be killed with a rifle shot or a cannon shot. *It
really doesn't make a damn bit of difference if the end result is "you
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I'm just wondering here. * Do you live in a vacuum? *Does the US? * If
nukes are so bad, how is it that other countries get 70% of their
electric power from nukes today? *And I'm not talking about some third
world country. * I'm talking about France, which is supposed to be one
of the enlightened socialist utopia of the world. * Clearly they have
only the highest regard for human life, safety and the environment of
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First of all, I have never said that nuclear power is bad. As for
France being an enlightened socialist utopia...you have got to be
****ing kidding! They are a bunch of idiots and I wouldn't not follow
their lead to heaven. What I am asking is that we NOT ignore the
problems with nuclear power as we have so often done with everything
else. The issue of disposal or reprocessing or whatever is needed to
deal with the waste from nuclear power must be delt with before we
expand the problem and find out we don't have solutions. Its time we
start dealing with the problems BEFORE they get out of hand instead of
having to deal with the consequences forever. I really don't care if
it is a technical issue or a political one, deal with it now.