tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49665561552503273362024-03-19T09:25:09.442+00:00LFTRs to Power the PlanetTo generate electricity for a city of 1 million people for 1 year:___Mine 3,200,000 tonnes of coal - emit 8,500,000 tonnes of greenhouse gases and particulates - landfill 900,000 cubic metres of toxic/radioactive fly-ash.___OR___Mine 50,000 tonnes of uranium ore - emit no greenhouse gases - produce 24 tonnes of radiotoxic 'waste'.___OR___Mine 50 tonnes of equivalent thorium ore - emit no greenhouse gases - produce 0.8 tonnes of radiotoxic 'waste'.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger108125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4966556155250327336.post-21830168360467188732017-10-16T18:15:00.000+01:002017-10-16T18:25:00.189+01:00Using Nuclear Power Instead Of Coal Has Prevented 2,123,000 Premature Deaths.<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">99.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">99% of humanity do not give a You-Know-What where their electricity comes from as long as it's there on demand. </span></b></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com29tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4966556155250327336.post-38773838475328972962017-06-13T21:24:00.000+01:002018-01-29T11:42:02.769+00:00666,667 East Midlands Population Reject 1,003 x 2 MW Wind Turbines And Choose 1 Small Modular Reactor [SMR]<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Every hour of every day, each man, woman and child in the UK uses 594 W of electricity - not just for our direct use but 'our content' of the electricity used by industry, commerce, business, schools, hospitals and everything that provides our wonderful way of life. So:</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Supplying 38,000 homes is the 'starting point' that windfarm operators publicise. But wind turbine performance deteriorates by 1.6% p.a. In the last year of its 25 year lifespan, it will only be supplying 26,650 homes. On average, over 25 years, that's 29,444 homes.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>To supply 666,667 people would require 29.5 Keadby-sized wind farms - a total of <span style="color: red;">1,003</span><span style="color: red;"> x 2 MW</span> wind turbines at a cost of <span style="color: red;">£2,915 million</span>.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>To provide electricity for the 60 year design life of the SMR, after 25 years a 2nd batch of 1,003 x 2 MW wind turbines would have to be built and then a 3rd batch would have to deliver for 15 years [40%] of its lifespan. Only then would intermittent wind power match the 24/7 nuclear power from an SMR. That's the intermittent output from </b></span><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: red;">2,407 x 2 MW</span> wind turbines.</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>The most appropriate costing for a R-R SMRs is to use the 'Current Study (adjusted-mature designs)' rate of £5,000/kW</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><a href="http://www.nnl.co.uk/media/1627/smr-feasibility-study-december-2014.pdf">Figure 21 - Overnight Capital Cost Comparison (£/kWe) for all Nuclear sectors </a></b></span><br />
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<b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Added to this must be the Hinkley Point C ratio of £7.3 billion, for decommissioning, waste handling and storage, against the £18 billion capital cost. </span></b><br />
<b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">In total, a 440 MW SMR would cost: </span><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">£3,092 million.</span></b><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4966556155250327336.post-84745727009571650142017-02-11T19:49:00.001+00:002017-02-11T19:57:28.192+00:00Intermittent Electricity From UK Solar PV Costs 3.78X More Than Nuclear !<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Calculating the Output of a 300 MW Plant in the UK:</span> </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>2012: 1,736 MW delivered 1,328 GWh</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>So 300 MW would deliver 229.5 GWh</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>2013: 2,822 MW delivered 2,015 GWh</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>So 300 MW would deliver 214.2 GWh</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>2014: 5,228 MW delivered 3,931 GWh</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>So 300 MW would deliver 225.6 GWh</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><b> </b><b><span style="font-size: large;">2015: 8,915 MW delivered 7,556 GWh</span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>So 300 MW would deliver 254.3 GWh</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_in_the_United_Kingdom" target="_blank">Statistics Section - Table</a></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Average of 229.5 + 214.2 + 225.6 + 254.3</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Reasonable Life Expectancy of a Solar Array to fall to 80% efficiency - <span style="color: red;">30 years</span> </span><a href="http://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/2017/01/life-expectancy-solar-array/" target="_blank">Sourc</a></b></span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/2017/01/life-expectancy-solar-array/" target="_blank">e</a></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>the 230.9 average value: </b></span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">230.9 x 0.9 = 207.8 GWh/year</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Delivery over 30 year Life Expectancy = <span style="color: red;">6.234 TWh</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Comparative Data: Hinkley Point C Nuclear Power Plant</b></span><br />
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<b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Delivery over 60 year Life Expectancy = <span style="color: red;">1,513.7 TWh</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>1,513.7</b> <b>÷ 6.234 = 242.8</b></span><br />
<span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>242 Cestas-sized Solar Parks would have to be built</b></span><br />
<span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>to deliver the same amount of electricity !</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>242 x 281,250,000 = 68,062,500,000</b></span><br />
<b style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">242 Cestas-sized Solar Parks would cost £68 billion !</b><br />
<b style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><br /></b><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">£68 billion ÷ £18 billion = 3.78</b><br />
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<b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">For the same capital expenditure nuclear power will deliver nearly </span></b><br />
<b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: lime; font-size: x-large;">4X more 24/7 electricity</span><span style="color: lime; font-size: large;"> </span></b><br />
<span style="color: red;"><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">than the intermittent electricity delivered </span></b><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">by Solar Parks</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>242 x 2.5 = 605</b></span></span><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">242 Solar Parks would cover 605 square kilometres.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Solar Parks just about covering the </span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Pembrokeshire Coast National Park !</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Imagine: </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMGSo45zsPw&feature=youtu.be" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">Adventures Not In A Solar Park</span></a></span></b><br />
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UK’s third largest onshore wind farm, with 96 wind turbines with a generating
capacity of up to 239 MW, the capacity of the wind farm will be
enough to power the equivalent of 130,000 households per year.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><a href="https://farrans.com/media-centre/news/first-turbines-energised-at-kilgallioch-windfarm" target="_blank">The UK's Third Largest Onshore Wind Farm</a></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"...</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif;">annual UK average domestic household consumption is 3,994kWh..."</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.renewableuk.com/page/UKWEDExplained" target="_blank">renewableUK [the voice of wind & marine energy]</a></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif;">"...</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Most wind turbines should last for about 25 years with normal inspection and maintenance..."</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.renewableenergyfocus.com/view/43817/the-end-of-the-line-for-today-s-wind-turbines/" target="_blank">Wind Turbine Lifespan</a></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">130,000 homes x 3,994 kWh = 0.51922 TWh/year.</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">0.51922 TWh/year x 25 year = 12.98 TWh</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">of intermittent electricity!</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">But Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant rated at 3.2 GW, operating at 90% capacity factor, with a design life of 60 years, delivers 1,513.7 TWh</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">of 24/7 electricity!</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">116 Kilgalliock-sized wind farms would need to be built to deliver the same amount of [<span style="color: red;">intermittent</span>] electricity as the [<span style="color: red;">24/7</span>] electricity delivered by HPC.</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">116 wind farms x £300 million = £34.8 billion.</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Open Sans, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>That's HPC <span style="color: red;">+ 93%</span></b></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">116 of these <i>GREEN</i> power plants:</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">coupled with <i>ISSUES:</i></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>"...Apart from water, peat bogs are largely composed of huge
volumes of saturated, undecayed plants. A single hectare typically contains
more than 5000 tonnes of carbon, ten times more than a typical hectare of
forest. But any disturbance leads to lower water levels and to the peat <a href="http://www.viewsofscotland.org/snp_conference/PeatAudit-Guide.pdf" title="drying, oxidising and releasing its carbon">drying, oxidising and
releasing its carbon</a>, says biochemist Mike Hall of the Cumbria Wildlife
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>The bog can decompose for hundreds of metres round every
turbine, potentially releasing millions of tonnes of carbon. The process is
slow, but frequently unstoppable, Hall says. So many wind farms may eventually
emit more carbon than an equivalent coal-fired power station..."</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>= 3,712 square kilometres.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>THAT'S NEARLY 60% OF THE WHOLE OF </b></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4966556155250327336.post-63648508632159270352016-12-10T21:04:00.000+00:002016-12-12T15:30:02.195+00:0011,184 UK Wind Turbines Supplying Intermittent Electricity = 1 Hinkley Point C Supplying 24/7 Electricity. <div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #666666; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="background-color: white;">"...How long does a wind turbine last? The design life of a good quality modern wind turbine is 20 years. Depending on how windy and turbulent the site is, the turbine could last for </span><span style="background-color: yellow;">25 years </span><span style="background-color: white;">or even longer, though as with anything mechanical, the maintenance costs will increase as it gets older..."</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>9,508,850 Homes x 25 Years = 237,721,250 Total</b></span></span></div>
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<b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;">Homes Powered Equivalent (p.a.) - Calculated using the most recent statistics from the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) showing that annual UK average domestic household consumption is 3,994 kWh.</b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #a64d79;">Wind Energy </span><a href="http://www.renewableuk.com/page/UKWEDExplained" target="_blank">Statistics Explained - renewableUK</a></b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>1.59 x 14,261.275 MW = 22,675.427 MW</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><span style="background-color: white;">The UK needs to build another 8,414.152 MW of Wind Turbine Capacity [</span><span style="background-color: yellow;">that's another 4,150 wind turbines</span><span style="background-color: white;">] </span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: yellow; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>11,184 Wind Turbines = 1 Hinkley Point C</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tourists bury themselves in the Sands of the Beaches of Guarapari, where </b><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Natural Background Radiation</b><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </b></span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: red;">is 875 Times Higher </span>than the dose received </span></b><br />
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<b style="text-align: start;">Although many may be indifferent or even antagonistic to those chosen, in one way or another, humanity will owe most of them a debt of gratitude.</b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">That the 'Dream Team' of Baroness Worthington choosing Alvin Weinberg, supported by Kirk Sorensen's biographical expertise, would be excellent material for </span></b><b><span style="font-size: large;">Great Lives.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>"...Hundreds of thousands of people worldwide live or work in close proximity to steel mills. Integrated steel production generates chemical pollution containing compounds that can induce genetic damage..."</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>"...Integrated steel millsproduce chemical mutagens that contaminate aquatic and atmospheric environments (1,2). and may pose a genetic hazard to humans and wildlife. Herring gulls (<i>Larus argentatus</i>) nesting near mill sites on the Great Lakes were shown to have higher germline mutation rates at minisatellite DNA loci than those at rural sites (3), and mutation frequency increased with colony proximity to integrates steel mills (4). <span style="background-color: yellow;">It was postulated that inhaled airborne contaminents emitted from steel mills, such as polycyclic aromatic compounds, were largely responsible for mutation induction</span>..."</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Stop worrying about minute levels of radiation from remote nuclear power plants, calm the befuddled activities in your brain and concentrate on the </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>The chemical mutagens in every breath you take and every mouthful of food and liquid you consume. </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Richard Rhodes: Pulitzer Prize Winner and author of <i>The Making of the Atomic Bomb </i>has, for too long, "...avoided looking at the whole picture..."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Stewart Brand: H<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.1875px;">is book </span><i style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.1875px;">Whole Earth Discipline</i><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.1875px;"> begins with "We are as gods and HAVE to get good at it".</span></span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4966556155250327336.post-7493992494207879572013-04-22T12:02:00.001+01:002013-04-22T12:06:12.873+01:00Electricity Generated from Fossil Fuels Kills Millions - Who Cares?<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gruesome and horrifying lack of concern. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Accurate, justified description of the vast majority of energy users. We really don't give a you-know-what where the energy comes from, as long as it's there 24/7, on demand.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I do hope I can get UK LFTR advocates to come on board with part-time support, for what I regard as the entrée technology for the UK's ultimate switch, in two or three generations, to wall-to-wall LFTR power.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our short term budget for PWR spending for our 'New Nuclear', could surely be better spent on the equivalent PRISM generating capacity.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Politicians eh! Can't live with 'em, can't live without 'em! Let's hope David Cameron can reverse Bill Clinton's dire decision, nearly 20 years ago, to halt IFR progress - energy wars, what energy wars? </span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4966556155250327336.post-89133932141274462382012-10-30T17:21:00.000+00:002012-10-30T17:55:00.403+00:00PRISM is almost here and now! The UK can lead the world into the Breeder Reactor era.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Maybe before the turn of the century, LFTRs will become the pre-eminent power source for the rest of this millennium and millennia to come. In terms of the benefits which can accrue to the UK, there isn't a ha'p'orth of difference between LFTRs and PRISMs, but the timescales are miles apart. Cold reasoning leads me to conclude that </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">in the very near future,</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> PRISM deployment for commercial electricity generation can become a reality for the UK, whereas LFTR technology will surely be the prerogative of the USA or China. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We have the technical/design</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> capabilities and the </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">manufacturing capacity here in the UK, to</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">manufacture PRISMs in their entirety and if we can lead the way in this technology, the benefits to our manufacturing industry, growth and prosperity are dream-worthy. </span><img height="263" src="https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSOUShtRCCnVkNA9YTJEc9p5I_nYndfkRvDJGT1Xg5qubQmDo_gNA" width="400" /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am persuaded however, that there is an opportunity for the UK to start the world on a course to widespread breeder reactor deployment, by dint of our Government's approach to GE Hitachi, to use their PRISM Breeder Reactor to solve our plutonium stockpile problem.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>I am going to start blogging in the UK, in support of your endeavours to persuade the UK Government to use your PRISM reactor to solve our uranium stockpile problem.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>I am particularly convinced by the strength of the arguments, for PRISM to alter public perception of nuclear power, advanced in this recent 'white paper': <a href="http://thesciencecouncil.com/conferences.html#white_paper" target="_blank">The Case for Near-term Commercial Demonstration of the Integral Fast Reactor</a></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>The aim of my blog will be to argue for an urgent adoption by our Government of your current proposal and my hope is that we will lead the world into the inevitable era of worldwide breeder reactor deployment, for the equitable, clean, plentiful, safe and secure provision of energy for all.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Beyond, what I hope will be your first success, I will be following a blog objective of ultimately powering the UK, to the exclusion of fossil fueled and unjustifiable wind powered sources. Around 30 PRISM Power Blocks of 600 MWe each, will provide all the UK's future electrical energy needs and subsequently, with public perception changed by, say, 5 or 10 years of success of the first PRISM, I think a strong campaign could be mounted.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>My reason for contacting your PR department is to ask if I could be kept up to date with the latest PRISM developments, with particular regards to your UK proposals, by way of public/press announcements, newsletters, etc.?</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Hoping to hear from you soon.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I will be switching soon to: <span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>PRISMs to Power the UK</i></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anyone fancy taking this blog over, or taking up the UK LFTR banner with another UK based blog?</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4966556155250327336.post-74194016319768575752012-10-07T13:24:00.000+01:002012-10-07T13:40:54.946+01:00Radiation (the lack of it) could impact 1 in 3 anti-nuclear proponents.<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">More than 1 in 3 (4 in 10) people in the UK will develop some form of cancer during their lifetime.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This blog has established that <b><i>believing any form of radiation is evil</i></b>, <b><i><span style="font-size: large;">offers no level of protection whatsoever</span></i></b>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">An exhaustive poll carried out on behalf of this blog has established that 99.99% of of anti-nuclear proponents, with morbid fears of radiation, will refuse all forms of radiation therapy, should they develop cancer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Of the 3 anti-nuclear proponents interviewed for the poll, 2.9997 of them (that's 99.99%) said they would refuse radiation therapy should they ever be diagnosed with cancer. The Grim Reaper will surely knock at the door of one of the 3 interviewees when the malice of his or her untreated cancer has undergone its course.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Some people may think this might not be a bad thing, but I take the contrary view and think it's a good thing - - - that is, they stick wholeheartedly to the principles, to the very end!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Extrapolating our blog findings to the anti- nuclear population as a whole, Dylan Ryan, a self-designated "Energy Guru", with anti-nuclear credentials having particularly vitriolic and verbose characteristics, will surely carry the banner of "Say No to Radiation Therapy". He will do so with a pride and passion befitting his morbid fear of invisible, evil (but easily detectable) radiation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But why single out Dylan Ryan? - - - Well, not being a particularly diligent blogger myself, I don't pay a lot of attention to 'Comments' coming after my posts. But, all of a sudden, after a trawl through them, I suddenly find Dylan Ryan in 'Parasitic Wasp'-mode, depositing his blog link 'eggs' all over the place.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After our last confrontation: </span><a href="http://lftrsuk.blogspot.co.uk/2011/07/dylan-ryan-of-glasgow-age-32-speaks.html" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dylan Ryan of Glasgow, Age 32. Speaks English, and writes it very verbosely indeed.</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> I thought I'd done with him, because I've never wasted another second of my time looking at his useless blog.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Nobel Laureate's response is "What happens when the nuclear runs out?"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Doesn't he know that nuclear will last forever? - No! That just can't be.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Why doesn't he impart this fact to the students - the future generation at the sharp end of the energy problem?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This video from prestigeous <i>Nature </i>will get thousands of hits. Why doesn't he tell the world at large that nuclear will resolve his (fictional/confrontational) fears of global wars and, right now, the science and engineering is in place to do so!</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4966556155250327336.post-82172628016767158492012-07-29T22:34:00.003+01:002012-07-29T22:41:12.133+01:00Learning to live with your local SMR (Small Modular Reactor)<span style="color: #444444; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"....The [US] Energy Department has taken a number of steps to help jumpstart America’s nuclear industry and ensure that nuclear power continues to play an important role in the U.S. energy mix. As part of these efforts, the Department has worked to advance small modular reactors, which provide an important opportunity for America’s manufacturing sector to make and sell cutting-edge technology...."<a href="http://energy.gov/articles/energy-department-announces-small-modular-reactor-technology-partnerships-savannah-river">The U.S. Energy Department Boosts SMR Technologies</a></span></span><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4966556155250327336.post-87271022010227095682012-07-29T18:42:00.000+01:002012-07-29T18:45:31.586+01:00Baroness Worthington gets William and Kate onside for Thorium<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">60 years ago, the young Queen Elizabeth II was handed a plastic bag containing plutonium </span><a href="http://www.neimagazine.com/story.asp?storyCode=2029280" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The </a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And here's Baroness Bryony Worthington moving the debate into the <i style="font-weight: bold;">'SECOND NUCLEAR ERA': <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnjYe1ve560">Baroness Worthington at TEAC4</a></i> Only a matter of a week or two ago, in front of throng of thorium supporters, she came up with the '<i>sound-bite' </i>of the decade - the Duchess of Cambridge being handed a gift-wrapped package of thorium. We'll be on all of the front pages tomorrow!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And guess who's handing the package over? It's Will himself!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>"....The TMSR project is to utilize the thorium energy via the development of molten salt and molten salt-cooled reactor technologies, in order to secure the long-term nuclear fuel supply by diversifying the sources of the fuel...."</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>"....By around 2035, the TMSR project shall build a 1000MWe molten salt-cooled demonstration reactor and a 100MWe molten salt demonstration reactor (liquid fuel), as well as possess the technologies that pave the road to commercialization of the thorium-fueled nuclear energy systems...."</i></b></span><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4966556155250327336.post-59026514641471984282012-07-20T11:43:00.000+01:002012-07-20T11:43:19.596+01:00Breeder Reactor Advocates Across The World.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is an extract from a new post on <i style="font-weight: bold;">Brave New Climate </i>by <i style="font-weight: bold;">Barry Brook and Geoff Russell </i> on 20 July 2012:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Life is about choices. In 1994, Bill Clinton chose to shut down the US "fast [breeder] reactor" program.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Now the Chinese, the Indians, the Russians and the South Koreans are building these reactors.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>With a fast [breeder] reactor, you get much more than 100 times the energy from the same amount of uranium. With fast [breeder] reactors you can use current nuclear waste as fuel. With fast [breeder] reactors, we can shut down all the world's coal mines. We can stop ripping up the boreal forests for tar sands in Canada and elsewhere. Bill Clinton blew it.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Fast [breeder] reactors will run on what is called depleted uranium, or on nuclear waste. There is enough of this already mined not only to shut all the world's coal mines - but also to make the Olympic Dam expansion unnecessary.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>So our last questions to Jim are: How worried are you about those tailings? How worried are you about climate change? Worried enough to risk the occasional deathless Fukushima accident and go with clean energy from fast [breeder] reactors? Or are local scare stories more important than solving the major environmental problems and keeping our eye on the big picture?</i></span></div>
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<strong style="line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Geoff Russell is a mathematician and long-time member of Animal Liberation in SA.<br />Barry Brook is professor of climate science at the University of Adelaide.</span></strong><br />
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<span style="line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The full post is well worth a read. Barry Brook is one of the most mild mannered people around and his video and podcast discourses on climate change and energy are level-headed and informative. This piece is a bit rumbustious, so I imagine there's plenty of Geoff Russell in it></span></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4966556155250327336.post-7627408962773408542012-07-16T23:22:00.003+01:002012-07-16T23:34:26.401+01:00Linear-No Threshold Theory (LNT) - What does it take to kill it off?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.utimes.pitt.edu/?p=20431">The sad death this year, of Dr. Bernard L. Cohen.</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>A couple of tasters from a man of conviction:</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In a 1989 article titled “The Myth of Plutonium Toxicity,” Cohen famously challenged activist Ralph Nader: “I offered to eat as much plutonium as he would eat of caffeine, which my paper shows is comparably dangerous, or given reasonable TV coverage, to personally inhale 1,000 times as much plutonium as he says would be fatal.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nader did not take up the challenge.</span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 19px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In a 2005 interview with RSO (Radiation Safety Officer) Magazine, Cohen recommended to the scientific community: “Don’t be enslaved to the linear-no threshold theory of radiation-induced cancer; it is almost certainly not valid and over-estimates the risks from low-level radiation. … As a nation, we are wasting tens of billions of dollars cleaning up little bits of radiation. The worst thing is that we are largely giving up on nuclear energy because of this.”</span></span>
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