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Uranium Seawater Extraction Makes Nuclear Power Completely Renewable
Forbes ^
| July 1, 2016
| James Conca
Posted on 07/01/2016 4:39:49 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: huckfillary; Moonman62
Yes, counter-productive government red tape is the only remaining real problem.
As for the costs, a solution is at hand: replace expensive, bespoke reactors with mass-produced modular reactors. Use the economies-of-scale inherent to mass production to make the cost/unit of power drop. Build modular plants, so that only relatively small up-front capital investments are required. That would greatly reduce financial risk, and further reduce overall costs.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
So, that’s how William Windom’s character on the Night Gallery episode “Little Girl Lost” blew up the entire Planet.
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posted on
07/01/2016 5:27:16 PM PDT
by
Kickass Conservative
(Hillary Clinton has killed four more People than Three Mile Island.)
To: zek157
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posted on
07/01/2016 5:34:34 PM PDT
by
rlmorel
(Orwell described Liberals when he wrote of those who "repudiate morality while laying claim to it.")
To: justlurking
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posted on
07/01/2016 5:38:33 PM PDT
by
samtheman
(Trump For America.)
To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA
I remember reading about modular reactors years ago and I think Bill Gates invested in them. What happened?
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posted on
07/01/2016 5:59:12 PM PDT
by
Moonman62
(Make America Great Again!)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
BUT BUT BUT... IT’S NUCLEAR
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Uranium?
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posted on
07/01/2016 8:04:58 PM PDT
by
PeaceBeWithYou
(De Oppresso Liber! (50 million and counting in Afghanistan and Iraq))
To: 2ndDivisionVet
If Hitlery gets in the ChiComs will have all our data within 24 hours. Right now just the muzzies have it.
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posted on
07/01/2016 9:51:55 PM PDT
by
fella
("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
To: Moonman62
My (limited) understanding is that this has become an “any day now” type of thing.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Uranium? Pfffft! Now Upsidaisium, there’s the future! ;-)
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posted on
07/01/2016 11:46:59 PM PDT
by
r_barton
(GO TRUMP!!!)
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posted on
07/02/2016 12:26:35 AM PDT
by
Lurkina.n.Learnin
(It's a shame enobama truly doesn't care about any of this. Our country, our future, he doesn't care)
To: AndyJackson
The biggest problem is that natural gas fired power plants are cheap and easy. Nuclear cannot begin to compete on base price regardless of reasonability of the regulatory stance.
..........
True. But 4th generations nuclear power plants will be cheaper.
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posted on
07/02/2016 8:46:40 AM PDT
by
ckilmer
(q e)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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posted on
07/02/2016 11:44:11 AM PDT
by
Noob1999
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Since they are extracting metals from seawater, I wonder if this is really a scheme to get government to fund extracting gold from seawater?
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posted on
07/02/2016 11:46:03 AM PDT
by
r_barton
(GO TRUMP!!!)
To: ckilmer
But 4th generations nuclear power plants will be cheaper.No they aren't, sadly.
To: AndyJackson
Disagree.
The beta’s won’t be cheaper but mass produced truck sized reactors will be.
The cost decline curve will be much steeper and faster than for solar.
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posted on
07/02/2016 7:50:47 PM PDT
by
ckilmer
(q e)
To: 6SJ7; AdmSmith; AFPhys; Arkinsaw; allmost; aristotleman; autumnraine; bajabaja; ...
Meanwhile, at least 7000 years worth of energy waits on the continental shelf in the form of methane clathrates and hydrates -- and without a radioactive waste disposal problem.
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posted on
07/03/2016 6:45:56 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(I'll tell you what's wrong with society -- no one drinks from the skulls of their enemies anymore.)
To: SunkenCiv
as well there’s an equal amount of waste uranium that can be used.
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posted on
07/04/2016 7:05:04 AM PDT
by
ckilmer
(q e)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
The key word in all this is the word “renewable”. The point is to have the government reclassify nuclear power as a renewable energy source.
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posted on
07/04/2016 7:06:08 AM PDT
by
ckilmer
(q e)
To: ckilmer
Using a breeder reactor design like the French one, along with the pebble bed design from Germany (which got kiboshed by the idiot Greeniacs before any were built) would minimize the waste problem, but it would still exist, and as electrical needs balloon in a post-internal-combustion era, so would the waste problem. Most of the waste would be low-level, and more or less safe in under 20 years; long-term waste disposal is a political problem for the most part -- but aren't those always the hardest ones?
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posted on
07/04/2016 8:38:37 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(I'll tell you what's wrong with society -- no one drinks from the skulls of their enemies anymore.)
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