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Not the first warning on this I've seen. Something to consider.
1 posted on 11/17/2009 7:47:21 AM PST by Clint Williams
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“that commercial fusion power will never become a reality.’”

A statement like this really throws the entire article into doubt. How about “commercial fusion power will never become a reality without new technology.”


2 posted on 11/17/2009 7:50:55 AM PST by east1234 (It's the borders stupid! My new environmentalist inspired tagline: cut, kill, dig and drill)
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If you8 re-process used fuel rods and go to a mixed (U-235/PU-239) cycle, the period is indefinite. Current reactors can use plutonium with very little modification. There are a lot of shut down uranium mines that were closed due to prices, not lack of ore.


3 posted on 11/17/2009 7:54:23 AM PST by nuke rocketeer (File CONGRESS.SYS corrupted: Re-boot Washington D.C (Y/N)?)
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"Dr. Dittmar's final conclusions paint a dire picture, stating that options like large-scale commercial fission breeder reactors are not an option by 2013 and 'no matter how far into the future we may look, nuclear fusion as an energy source is even less probable than large-scale breeder reactors, for the accumulated knowledge on this subject is already sufficient to say that commercial fusion power will never become a reality"

The only thing keeping breeder reactors down is politics. The technology is already developed, and in use in France. The US geared up to win a global war in a similar time-frame. Not impossible.

And as to fusion, I think that Bussard's polywell will prove Herr Doktor Dittmar wrong.

4 posted on 11/17/2009 7:56:15 AM PST by Wonder Warthog ( The Hog of Steel)
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Ping for my son in the nuclear navy.


5 posted on 11/17/2009 8:02:07 AM PST by DungeonMaster (camel, eye of a needle; rich man, heaven)
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Maybe a time to buy Cameco Corp (CCJ), one of the world's top uranium mining companies?
11 posted on 11/17/2009 8:31:27 AM PST by 2001convSVT ("Only Property Owners that pay taxes should have the right to Vote")
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