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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
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> Subject: Re: Nova/Frontline
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> 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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