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RE: Nova/Frontline



Of course, all this is if you buy into the theory that global warming is a
reality and can be affected by human activity.

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> From: 	GlennACarlson@aol.com[SMTP:GlennACarlson@aol.com]
> Reply To: 	radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu
> Sent: 	Wednesday, April 19, 2000 5:31 PM
> To: 	Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: 	Re: Nova/Frontline
> 
> An option to combat global warming?  Is this just hearing what we want to 
> hear?  
> 
> According to the program (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/warming/beyond/), "If we
> 
> look at the estimates of the available uranium ore around the world, at
> cost 
> effective prices, and we ask the question, if we were to burn it in 
> light-water reactors (conventional nuclear reactors used in the United
> States 
> and Western Europe), how long would the reserves of uranium last if we
> were 
> to extract energy at the rate of ten terawatts [which equals the current 
> total energy consumption of all humankind]?  Well, it turns out that you
> only 
> have about ten years of U-235 power from all of the cost-effective uranium
> 
> reserves."
> 
> Unless we go with breeders, it sounds like nuclear is at best a short-term
> 
> solution.  And, considering how long it takes to build even one nuclear 
> plant, it's probably not even that.  
> 
> Glenn A. Carlson, P.E.
> glennacarlson@aol.com
> 
> << Subj:     RE:Nova/Frontline
>  Date:  4/19/2000 1:02:14 PM Central Daylight Time
>  From:  Kjell.Johansen@wepco.com (Johansen.Kjell)
> 
>  Having followed the global warming issue since the 70s I was gratified to
>  hear nuclear recognized as an option to combat global warming by most of
> the
>  interviewees, Greenpeace notwithstanding. 
> 
> [snip]
> 
>  Kjell Johansen
>  Wisconsin Electric Power Company
>  231 W. Michigan
>  Milwaukee, WI 53217
>  kjell.johansen@wepco.com
>   >>
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