Comments on: White House Chews on Chu’s Nuclear Budget http://www.powermag.com/blog/index.php/2010/01/15/white-house-chews-on-chus-nuclear-budget/ Business and Technology for the Global Generation Industry Sun, 5 Feb 2012 18:25:06 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Carl Holder http://www.powermag.com/blog/index.php/2010/01/15/white-house-chews-on-chus-nuclear-budget/comment-page-1/#comment-1036 Carl Holder Wed, 03 Mar 2010 04:50:29 +0000 http://www.powermag.com/blog/?p=309#comment-1036 Laying waste to vast knowledge bases and incredibly valuable nuclear R&D infrastructure is shortsighted - at best. China, India, S Korea, Japan, France & Russia are moving forward with commercial fast reactor development. GNEP's recycle and burner reactor were looking to close the nuclear fuel cycle and provide options for the nation's geologic repository debacle. Uranium 235 is a scarce resource. The USA relies on Russia's downblended U for 50% of our N power fuel. Other U comes from Canada & Australia, etc. Some U.S. states have banned U mining. Use of scarce resources demand recycle and beneficial use of DU. I found this article contrived possibly to disparage a very valuable high-technology competitor. Laying waste to vast knowledge bases and incredibly valuable nuclear R&D infrastructure is shortsighted – at best. China, India, S Korea, Japan, France & Russia are moving forward with commercial fast reactor development. GNEP’s recycle and burner reactor were looking to close the nuclear fuel cycle and provide options for the nation’s geologic repository debacle.
Uranium 235 is a scarce resource. The USA relies on Russia’s downblended U for 50% of our N power fuel. Other U comes from Canada & Australia, etc. Some U.S. states have banned U mining. Use of scarce resources demand recycle and beneficial use of DU.
I found this article contrived possibly to disparage a very valuable high-technology competitor.

]]> By: Ralph Johnson http://www.powermag.com/blog/index.php/2010/01/15/white-house-chews-on-chus-nuclear-budget/comment-page-1/#comment-1035 Ralph Johnson Wed, 03 Mar 2010 04:13:02 +0000 http://www.powermag.com/blog/?p=309#comment-1035 Times have recently changed. Intentions appear to be scrap significant vestiges of GNEP; avoid use of Hanford multi-billion capital facilities; keep nuclear power from being the #1 alternative energy source. Let us move nuclear energy [including medical needs] to a much higher position on the national priority table. rej 3-2-10 Times have recently changed. Intentions appear to be scrap significant vestiges of GNEP; avoid use of Hanford multi-billion capital facilities; keep nuclear power from being the #1 alternative energy source. Let us move nuclear energy [including medical needs] to a much higher position on the national priority table. rej 3-2-10

]]> By: Travis R http://www.powermag.com/blog/index.php/2010/01/15/white-house-chews-on-chus-nuclear-budget/comment-page-1/#comment-628 Travis R Thu, 21 Jan 2010 03:41:18 +0000 http://www.powermag.com/blog/?p=309#comment-628 The true tragedy of this whole melodrama at the DOE is that Dr. Chu is charging in alone and unafraid, and very few are there to aid him because NOBODY in main stream America realizes what's at stake! Only the horde he's fighting against.- the fossil fuel "mafia" as I call them- knows why this funding line is so damn important- it represents the only true threat to their kingdom . The S-PRISM represents the final step in unleashing the full potential of the nuclear renaissance-- by answering the "Waste problem". Uranium shortage is not the issue in Americans minds, SUSTAINABILITY is, period. That's the buzz all about the countryside, and rightfully so. Gen III+ rollout coupled with S-PRISMs (which have none of the BS problems extolled in this article) represents a complete picture... a picture that scares the hell out of coal & nat gas companies (and oil to a lesser extent). Three decades of entrenched propaganda slinging from the "mafia" and their unwitting puppets "the anti nuke peanut gallery" is very tough to reverse. What really concerns me is the apparent disconnect between the President's statement of needing to answer the nuclear waste question, and people directly below him seeking to destroy just such an answer. The DC lobby money runs way too deep for my taste. Ken Maize said- "I don’t care about the explanations about Monju or Superphenix. The fact is, they are not in operation, have not operated for years, and have no prospects for future operations." WOW, in all seriousness, were you jumping up and down in true tantrum fashion as you typed this eloquent rebuttal??? That doesn't even resemble a mature response. I'm glad NASA didn't hire you as their PR spokesman: "I don’t care about the explanations about Challenger or Columbia. The fact is, they are not in operation, have not operated for years, and have no prospects for future operations." If that hurt your feelings so be it, blindly ignoring the warnings of engineers and scientists who know what the hell they're talking about is what led to those disasters as well. And before you even think about going there, they were ignored at Chernobyl too. Coal kills tens of thousands Americans every year because misinformative articles such as these sway folks to withdraw support from solutions such as the S-PRISM. These polluting coal mafias create slums out of entire swaths of Appalachian states, destroy any chance at a diversified economy in these regions, then claim to be the saving grace by swooping in at the last second as the only job in town. Nice- cancer all around to the economically forlorn. Just wanted to make sure you were aware of the consequences of your actions. The true tragedy of this whole melodrama at the DOE is that Dr. Chu is charging in alone and unafraid, and very few are there to aid him because NOBODY in main stream America realizes what’s at stake! Only the horde he’s fighting against.- the fossil fuel “mafia” as I call them- knows why this funding line is so damn important- it represents the only true threat to their kingdom . The S-PRISM represents the final step in unleashing the full potential of the nuclear renaissance– by answering the “Waste problem”. Uranium shortage is not the issue in Americans minds, SUSTAINABILITY is, period. That’s the buzz all about the countryside, and rightfully so. Gen III+ rollout coupled with S-PRISMs (which have none of the BS problems extolled in this article) represents a complete picture… a picture that scares the hell out of coal & nat gas companies (and oil to a lesser extent).

Three decades of entrenched propaganda slinging from the “mafia” and their unwitting puppets “the anti nuke peanut gallery” is very tough to reverse.

What really concerns me is the apparent disconnect between the President’s statement of needing to answer the nuclear waste question, and people directly below him seeking to destroy just such an answer. The DC lobby money runs way too deep for my taste.

Ken Maize said- “I don’t care about the explanations about Monju or Superphenix. The fact is, they are not in operation, have not operated for years, and have no prospects for future operations.”

WOW, in all seriousness, were you jumping up and down in true tantrum fashion as you typed this eloquent rebuttal???

That doesn’t even resemble a mature response. I’m glad NASA didn’t hire you as their PR spokesman:

“I don’t care about the explanations about Challenger or Columbia. The fact is, they are not in operation, have not operated for years, and have no prospects for future operations.”

If that hurt your feelings so be it, blindly ignoring the warnings of engineers and scientists who know what the hell they’re talking about is what led to those disasters as well. And before you even think about going there, they were ignored at Chernobyl too.

Coal kills tens of thousands Americans every year because misinformative articles such as these sway folks to withdraw support from solutions such as the S-PRISM. These polluting coal mafias create slums out of entire swaths of Appalachian states, destroy any chance at a diversified economy in these regions, then claim to be the saving grace by swooping in at the last second as the only job in town. Nice- cancer all around to the economically forlorn.

Just wanted to make sure you were aware of the consequences of your actions.

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