Joffan’s Recent Comments

• Click here to view comment in original post

  No, fusion is different, totally unproven

  I'm just talking about an alternative mineral source for existing fission technology which doesn't involve mining.

  I should also like to take minor issue with the blanket use of "energy gluttony" since I doubt you could apply that term to many in India for example. We certainly need more energy availability there to lift people out of poverty and hence (sure as day follows night) reduce population growth pressure.On Monbiot on nuclear posted 9 months ago 6 Responses

• Click here to view comment in original post

  Getting uranium

  Hey Russ, what would you think about extraction of uranium from seawater? The current state of research on that is that by letting some selectively-absorbent (and reusable) material hang in the ocean current for a month or two at a time you could extract useful amounts of uranium.

  It's not large-scale technology now but the projected costs are in the $130/kg region for uranium.On Monbiot on nuclear posted 9 months ago 6 Responses

• Click here to view comment in original post

  Is this simple enough for you amazingdrax?

  Tritium at Barnwell is not from power plant operations. End of story.

  Acknowledge this and maybe we can debate something real.
  On Can Obama stop the nuclear bomb in the Senate stimulus plan? (Part 1) posted 9 months, 2 weeks ago 53 Responses

• Click here to view comment in original post

  More importantly, amazingdrax

  US nuclear power plants are completely unconnected with tritium in low-level waste sites. So your set of articles about tritium at Barnwell are irrelevant.On Can Obama stop the nuclear bomb in the Senate stimulus plan? (Part 1) posted 9 months, 2 weeks ago 53 Responses

• Click here to view comment in original post

  David - Taxes are paid on profits

   and profits are net of expenses. I really don't see how you can count payments to the decomm fund as anything but an expense. And I shudder to think what kind of howl you'd set up if the nuclear plant operator was not paying into a decomm fund in advance.On Can Obama stop the nuclear bomb in the Senate stimulus plan? (Part 1) posted 9 months, 2 weeks ago 53 Responses