[ RadSafe ] status of nuclear power world wide

[Joseph Preisig]

Radsafe/Franz,
     I see lately that India has ordered 6 more nuclear plants, and the
number of nuclear engineering want ads on the
internet is quite high (2600 on one site)....google nuclear engineer and
jobs     (see the indeed listings)....
     On the USGS website a while back, they spoke of significant deposits
of Uranium in South Texas (USA)....Get out your rad detector,
those of you in south Texas???  Electric cars are nice, and fairly
expensive.  Are there electric car charging-stations along the typical
highway???
     The price of solar energy per unit of energy continues to go downward,
fairly rapidly.  Solar researchers are still making discoveries in making
solar cells cheaper.  But can the average homeowner afford to go solar,
even with the various rebate programs.???  There are now battery storage
systems which can be bought with solar panels, to help you get through a
Sun-free day, or possibly through the Winter months.   In 40 years, can one
recycle their solar panels and/or solar battery systems???  What will be
the effects on the environment???
     I see claims by homeowners with solar energy systems, that they
actually sell energy back to the Power Grid.  If true, this is pretty
cool.  Have a good week.
     Joe Preisig





On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 1:04 PM, Franz Schönhofer <
franz.schoenhofer at chello.at> wrote:

> RADSAFErs,
>
> Anybody involved or interested in nuclear power worldwide should subscribe
> to the site www.world-nuclear-news.org. It provides information about all
> aspects of what is going on in this field – from uranium resources, the
> mining industry, financial aspects, contracts for supplies of both uranium
> and equipment or entire power plants. Furthermore there are very useful
> statistics on nuclear electricity generation and the status of spent
> nuclear fuel disposal. For me as a non US“ citizen it is most appealing
> that it covers the situation world wide exhaustibly not only the USA,
> ignoring the “rest of the world”!!! (Pun intended.) Unfortunately  the
> “greens” do never read such sites. They very successfully distribute
> opinions like “Nuclear power is worldwide on decline” and “will be  phased
> out within ten, twenty, thirty ...years”, hailing photovoltaic and windmill
> generated electricity as the solution to our future electricity supply in
> spite of facts, the latest hype being the electric cars....
>
> Happy reading!
>
> Franz
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