On 23/02/2015 19:40, Rod Speed wrote:
Nick wrote
Rod Speed wrote

Harry wouldn’t work that out even if half the
population of that soggy little island got killed by it.

But don't we all agree that population reduction is the safest way to
achieve CO2 reduction.

Nope, the safest way to do that is using candu reactors.

Or thorium reactors if you want to eliminate any risk
of the owners ever being able to make nuclear weapons.

Not "eliminate" you can still make nukes it's just harder from the
natural thorium fuel cycle, i,e U233 is produced.

AIUI you can also produce plutonium by blanketing any neutron producing
breeder reactor core with Uranium.

But in general I take your point and agree we should be investing more
in Nuclear, possibly thorium.