On 31/08/14 02:03, Johny B Good wrote:


Suggesting that fossil fuelled power stations (let alone Nuclear) can
be replaced with 'Green Power' is simply an impractical Pipe Dream.

Agreed BUT you are not 100% right that civil reactors can produce
weapons garde plutonium - thats better produced in a rather different
reactor altogether.

Not to say that there wasnt a big link up between civil and military
nuclear power.

Also Thorium is not the godsend some claim it to be. Its still got lots
of nasty by products that need to be dealt with and the breeder reactor
itself is more expensive.

The good news is that nuclear power is an about 1000 times safer than
the greens think it is, so re-education and ratinalisation of risk could
make it very much cheaper than it is.





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