Re: Nuclear Power Plants Now the Lowest-Cost Electricity-Generating Technology

"T.Keating" <tkgoogle@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> On Sat, 03 Dec 2005 20:21:33 GMT, "Karl Johanson"
> <karljohanson@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>Excerpt from:
>>http://www.canelect.ca/english/article.html?SMContentIndex=0&SMContentSet=0
>>
>>Nuclear Power Plants Now the Lowest-Cost Electricity-Generating
>>Technology, New World Nuclear Association Analysis Shows
>>CCN Matthews - December 1, 2005
>
> snip...
>
> Only if you shift the N-power's liabilities to the government or the
> unsuspecting public. The US's Price-Anderson act limits damages to
> ~8Bill.. Most of which(95%) takes the form of a post accident levy.

Nonsequitre. Dozens of countries use nuclear energy & only one uses the
Price Anderson act.

> Next item... Scattering these radioactive storage depots (operating
> reactors) across the countryside is an easy way to insure a near
> complete annihilation of the area's human population.. Dr.
> Strangelove
> redux.

Gibberish. Spreading a hefty percentage of a nuclear power plant over
Europe killed dozens, and might eventually kill thousands (less than the
UN's estimate of the daily death toll from biomass energy emissions).
This was material fresh out of a reactor. Spent nuclear fuel loses
around 60% of its level of radioactivity in a day. In a few months the
biologically significant radio-iodines are gone. In 10 years it's around
10,000 times less radioactive (and many of the volatile / easy to spread
isotopes decay long before that).

> All it takes is a relatively small nuke strike to release those
> accumulated stores of fission byproducts. The resulting enhanced
> fallout contains a thousand times more medium/medium-long decay rate
> fission byproducts.

So if a nuke had hit Chernobyl (without a proper containment building,
it might (maybe, conceivably) have resulted in the same amount of
isotopes emitted as the accident, killing dozens, as apposed to the
number killed if the nuke were used on a city (or a dam, or a natural
gas tanker near a city), so the nuke would reduce loss of life by
providing a less dangerous target.

> (I.E. The ones which hang out in the food chain for long periods and
> are especially dangerous to animals with long life spans.. like
> humans... )

Coffee has around 1,000 Bq or radiation per kilogram. Wife & I have
dumped around 1 to 2,000 kilograms of coffee (from a convenience store
she worked at)
on our gardens. Say a million Bq on maybe 10 square metres. Maybe
100,000 Bq per square metre (not counting the all the natural
radioactives already in the soil). Higher levels than the amounts in
much of the 'contaminated' areas around Chernobyl. We grow squash &
Brussels sprouts & zucchini & herbs in that soil.

Karl Johanson



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