[ RadSafe ] New Nuclear Power Plants --- USA

[JPreisig at aol.com]

Dear Radsafe:
 
 
     Message from      _jpreisig at aol.com_ (mailto:jpreisig at aol.com)        .
 
 
     Good Day All.  According to a Television show  I saw a while back 
there are reactor 
construction projects starting in the USA (Calvert Cliffs,  South  Jersey 
etc.  
5 to 10 projects????).  There you go, Gary I.
 
     Global Warming????  I start to think that the  source of global 
warming 
is not some scientific cause, but rather is due to world population  growth 
and associated industrial 
productivity.  Many countries still burn much coal 
 
     George Stanford, I always enjoy reading your  ideas about using all of 
the energy reserves.  I was
bothered when the FFTF (Fast Neutron Fission Reactor project) was  ended.
 
     I also was bothered when the HFBR (High Flux Beam  Reactor) and 
Medical Reactor at Brookhaven were closed.  A fair number of  Nuclear Engineers 
and support staff had to find jobs elsewhere at Brookhaven and  some were let 
go.  In the meantime, various anti-nuke folks had been  picketing at the BNL 
front gate
(Priests, Ministers, American Indians, Local folks etc. ).  It was  quite a 
display.  People on eastern Long 
Island are sure hard on reactors.  All over a fairly small tritium  leak, 
which should have never occured.
 
     Sure, Otto Raabe, sunspots control at some level  what is going on in 
solar energy/light reaching
the Earth's surface.  People have been scientifically watching  sunspots 
for some time.  The light leaves
the sun, traverses space (and any intervening mass) and eventually reaches  
the Earth, which is at
some angular orientation, which is time variable.  Understand the  whole 
system.
 
    Foucault pendulum???? Sure, have students do the  experiment ---  it is 
difficult to do this experiment well  Why not  just have students record 
the Sun's position in the sky during daylight hours.  Sorry, I am rambling 
again.
 
    Enjoy your weekend.   Regards,  Joseph R.  (Joe) Preisig. PhD 
 
 
 
 
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