Pyramid feng shui is a rational scientifically based way of understanding how place impacts on human I interrupt the topic of this summer’s blog to discuss with you a lecture I heard this weeke Chautauqua Institute.
James Rogers, chairman and CEO of Duke Energy – one of the largest electric power companies in the United States, gave a lecture promoting nuclear energy as the future’s “clean” and cheap power source. While he kept using the word clean in conjunction with nuclear power. What he meant was that nuclear does not spew carbon emissions into the atmosphere, but does leave spent fuel rods of radioactive uranium and plutonium for us to deal with. Yes, the French recycle the rods, but most still goes into deep graves. What is still not completely solved is how to reprocess these highly radioactive spent fuel rods that up to now have been disposed of underground.
As Healthy Environment of Utah or Heal writes: “The Reprocessing is simply a process to repackage nuclear waste–not eliminate it. The idea is to reuse some of the energy in a fuel rod after it has gone through its first life cycle. Once the uranium-filled fuel rods that create the nuclear power plant’s nuclear reaction are “spent,” they are cooled for a few years at the reactor site and are then transported to a reprocessing plant. At the reprocessing facility the fuel rods are cut up and dissolved in a bath of nitric acid. Uranium and plutonium are then separated out from the other highly radioactive wastes in the nitric acid solution. The remaining solution, which is still high-level waste, is typically blended with glass, a process known as vitrification, and must ultimately be stored in a deep geologic repository, like the one proposed at Yucca Mountain. In theory, the extracted uranium, which comprises 95% of the volume of the spent fuel rods, could be re-fabricated into nuclear fuel rods. However, in practice, no significant amount of this reprocessed uranium is reused in countries that currently reprocess, including France and Britain. This is because the extracted uranium is contaminated with highly radioactive and hazardous fission products. The process of turning this contaminated uranium into nuclear fuel rods is prohibitively dangerous for workers and would be extremely expensive. The result is that most of the radioactive materials from spent fuel rods are not reused, and must still go into a deep geologic repository. The United States’ only foray into reprocessing commercial nuclear waste was an environmental and economic disaster. Between 1966 and 1972, the West Valley reprocessing facility, located in New York State, reprocessed only one-sixth of the spent fuel slated for processing while creating radioactive waste that is threatening eventual leakage into Lake Erie. Thirty-three years after the facility’s closure, taxpayers are still footing the $5.2 billion remediation tab. “ What was so telling in this morning lecture was how Mr. Roger’s answered a question from the audience revealing his true agenda. He was asked why do nuclear power plants have to be so ugly and he answered it by saying, and I paraphrase, well it looks beautiful to me. It’s the look of cash flow and that is my favorite kind of green. Let us not find ourselves in the same position in the future, as we are now, finding that after 100 years of using gas to power cars, we realize that we are choking our planet to death with air born toxins. July 25 2010Master of Nuclear Power’s Universe, Reveals his True Agenda Pyramid feng shui is a rational scientifically based way of understanding how place impacts on human I interrupt the topic of this summer’s blog to discuss with you a lecture I heard this weeke Chautauqua Institute. James Rogers, chairman and CEO of Duke Energy – one of the largest electric power companies in the United States, gave a lecture promoting nuclear energy as the future’s “clean” and cheap power source. While he kept using the word clean in conjunction with nuclear power, what he meant was that nuclear does not spew carbon emissions into the atmosphere, but it does leave spent fuel rods of radioactive uranium and plutonium for us to deal with. Yes, the French recycle the rods, but most still goes into deep graves. What is still not completely solved is how to reprocess these highly radioactive spent fuel rods that up to now have been disposed of underground. As Healthy Environment of Utah or Heal writes: “The Reprocessing is simply a process to repackage nuclear waste–not eliminate it. The idea is to reuse some of the energy in a fuel rod after it has gone through its first life cycle. Once the uranium-filled fuel rods that create the nuclear power plant’s nuclear reaction are “spent,” they are cooled for a few years at the reactor site and are then transported to a reprocessing plant. At the reprocessing facility the fuel rods are cut up and dissolved in a bath of nitric acid. Uranium and plutonium are then separated out from the other highly radioactive wastes in the nitric acid solution. The remaining solution, which is still high-level waste, is typically blended with glass, a process known as vitrification, and must ultimately be stored in a deep geologic repository, like the one proposed at Yucca Mountain. In theory, the extracted uranium, which comprises 95% of the volume of the spent fuel rods, could be re-fabricated into nuclear fuel rods. However, in practice, no significant amount of this reprocessed uranium is reused in countries that currently reprocess, including France and Britain. This is because the extracted uranium is contaminated with highly radioactive and hazardous fission products. The process of turning this contaminated uranium into nuclear fuel rods is prohibitively dangerous for workers and would be extremely expensive. The result is that most of the radioactive materials from spent fuel rods are not reused, and must still go into a deep geologic repository. The United States’ only foray into reprocessing commercial nuclear waste was an environmental and economic disaster. Between 1966 and 1972, the West Valley reprocessing facility, located in New York State, reprocessed only one-sixth of the spent fuel slated for processing while creating radioactive waste that is threatening eventual leakage into Lake Erie. Thirty-three years after the facility’s closure, taxpayers are still footing the $5.2 billion remediation tab. “ What was so telling in this morning lecture was how Mr. Roger’s answered a question from the audience revealing his true agenda. He was asked why do nuclear power plants have to be so ugly and he answered it by saying, and I paraphrase, well it looks beautiful to me. It’s the look of cash flow and that is my favorite kind of green. Let us not find ourselves in the same position in the future, as we are now, finding that after 100 years of using gas to power cars, we realize that we are choking our planet to death with air born toxins and now destroy the soil underneath the earth’s crust.
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