Re: Greenhouse Gases

[Bob Hearn <rah@america.net>]

Is the greenhouse gas model for the nuclear option also burdened (as is the
industry in reality) with the hot air contribution from self-serving
envirnmental activists groups and politicians?

At 10:00 AM 10/23/97 -0500, you wrote:
>To continue on the greenhouse gas thread, the following was received from
>Sam Morris at BNL.  For some years, He has been involved in the assessment
>of the emissions from alternative fuel cycles.
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>>Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 15:24:25 -0400
>>From: morris3@sun2.bnl.gov (samuel c. morris)
>>To: hull@mail.sep.bnl.gov
>>Subject: Re: Greenhouse Gases
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>>Andy,
>>  You may remember the old "Table S-3" fro 10CFR51 that gives emissions 
>>associated with fossil fuels used in nuclear in mining, millin UF6,
>>transport, reprocessing etc.   I'll mail you a copy.  It's from
>>1981.  I don't think that emissions from fuels used, say, in trucking
>>ore will have changed greatly, but the emissions associated with
>>electricity use have changed.
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>>  In the modeling we do, we assume that electricity used in the nuclear
>>fuel cycle is the same as the overall mix of electric produced in the US,
>>where as I believe Table S3 assumed it all came from coal.
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>>Sam
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