Re: Global Warming: What needs to be done?
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Sure I have. But if the plan is to replace all energy currently being produced by carbon emission creating resources with nuclear power, then:
1. The amount of nuclear waste produced would go way up; and
2. The amount of nuclear waste being produced would pile up faster than the rate at which the radiation would decay down to safe levels, so even all the space in the Nevada desert would eventually fill up.
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This is rubbish. We will run out of uranium before this happens.
Unfortunately it would only take about 10 years to use up all minable uranium resources if we were to power our entire global economy from nuclear power.
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I have a feeling that much like the 'shortage' of proven oil reserves, the same miracle will occur when we need much more fissionable material.
Wouldn't it be nice if fusion energy became the national goal?
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