Posted on 09/14/2008 11:44:08 AM PDT by kellynla
RIO DE JANEIRO, Sept. 12 (Xinhua) -- Mines and Energy Minister Edison Lobao announced Friday Brazil plans to build 50 to 60 nuclear power plants in half a century, with each having capacity of 1,000 megawatts.
"The general idea is to build one plant per year," he said during a visit to the construction site of Brazil's third nuclear power plant, Angra 3.
The ambitious plan, a priority for the administration of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, has yet to be approved by Brazil's National Council of Energy Policy, he added.
The construction of Angra 3 started in 1984, but was halted for21 years. The decision to resume the project and expand the nuclear program was welcomed by Brazil's industrial sector as a way to prevent an energy crisis in future decades, but environmentalists warned of the problem of the residues storage.
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More importantly, proponents of ethanol conversion by whatever means -- except biomass conversion, which may never be economical -- do not consider the lost opportunity cost of turning food into fuel. That cost is extremely high, and to the extent that it displaces primary agricultural grain sources has a ripple effect in increased costs and lost efficiencies throughout the economy.
Your comment made the same point as mine with a lot more words, but thanks for amplifying.
China wants to build 100 nuclear plants by 2020.
Westinghouse is selling AP-1000 reactors all over the world.
They have sold six in the U.S.
Our irrational fear of nuclear energy may well be what leads the U.S. to being a third-world country by mid-century.
Anyone who studies the history of energy production will realize nuclear power was the logical next step for electric generation after coal. Instead, now we are putting up natural gas fired plants all over the place, which is increasing the demand for, and driving up the cost of, natural gas.
Even global warming phobia is not enough to cause the radical left to give up on their nuclear phobia.
It is the 21st century. We should be living in the Jetson's world. Instead we have a rerun of the Carter years, complete with gas lines.
Thank you, Jane Fonda.
Which Rebublican would that be????
You really don’t know???http://wikimapia.org/1018446/Phipps-Bend-Nuclear-Reactor-Site
Brazil looks to the future and sees nuclear power plants; the Democrats look 500 years in the past and see windmills.
Ya got that right. Charges would be filed after weeks of abuse by NYT et al.
When questioned on a Sunday talk show a few weeks ago, Speaker Stretch commented that she invested only $50K, a small percentage of her available investment funds. No further questions or followup from the old media.
The Don Quixote solution?
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