Re: NEF claims more nuclear power is not way forward

On Mon, 17 Sep 2007 22:20:10 -0400, T.Keating wrote:

On Mon, 17 Sep 2007 19:47:36 -0400, "daestrom"
<daestrom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


"T. Keating" <tkusenet@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Tue, 28 Aug 2007 06:21:26 -0700, "EnergyForum.cc"
<fabian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello newsgroup members,

This might be of interest to someone:

An environmental think-tank in the UK, New Economics Foundation (NEF),
has said that more nuclear power plants in the country is not the way
forward for cutting carbon emissions from the power generation sector
and reducing the consumption of imported fossil fuels because
implementing a nuclear building programme will be slow, expensive and
risky. Additionally, it will not have enough of an impact to prevent
climate change nor guarantee energy supply security. According to NEF,
the cost of building new nuclear reactors is actually triple what is
being claimed by supporters of such plans. Source: Energy Business
Review


There is a significant chance that our current nuclear reactor designs
will enter into a class-9 meltdown phase after being subjected to a EMP
attack. (google CRAC-2, "Calculation of Reactor Accident
Consequences" ) .

I.E. Simultaneous failure of all power, measurement, electronic
control, and cooling systems.

If this EMP pulse occurs in near space (altitude 200+ miles, just off
the US east coast), we could have dozens of reactors entering into a
simultaneous meltdown phase. Thus sealing the US's fate as a massively
contaminated radioactive wasteland.

http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/nuregs/staff/sr0933/sec3/020r1.html
Unfortunately.. this study was prepared(1982) before many electronic
control, and monitoring system additions where made to many of these
plants.

Unfortunately for your theory, the digital controls and other protective
equipment at nuclear plants are used to keep the control rods 'out'. A
failure of nuclear instrumentation systems, whether from EMP or dropped
screw-driver in the works, results in the reactor scramming and stopping
the fission process. Digital control of the main turbine-generator is a
non-issue as well. The small number of instruments actually needed to

Good luck, their will be no power.. Unintentional effects of the 1962
"Starfish Prime" detonation was to FUSE a number of vehicle starter
motors. (~1300km away).

That's interesting. Do you have a cite for it?


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