Quote - Some counterpoint to kawecki's ill-informed postings.

-> http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/richardblack/2011/03/reflections_on_a_fukushima_for.html

-> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/25/fukushima_scaremongering_debunk/

The comments on both articles are worth reading through.

I almost completely subscribe kawecki comments, those links are just pro-nuclear propaganda. In case you are wondering, I have a M.Sc. in Physics...

About fusion reactors:

1 - D+T reaction has not yet powered a SINGLE F$%$$ING light bulb (and it is not going to do so for at least a couple of decades). There are also well founded doubts that fusion reactors will be able to fertilize enough T out of thir Li layers so in practise they will likely to still require fission plants to produce the balance of T.

2 - D+He-3 is NOT aneutronic. NO reaction in which there is D is. The problem is that, if you have appropriate conditions for fusion, the D+D -> T + p reaction can take place and that is immediately followed by D+T -> He-4 + n. And before you start uttering the R-word (regolyte) remember that lunar soil contains one part in 100 million of He3 so each ton of He-3 require processing 100 million tons of soil. Last but not least, D+He-3 reaction requires confinement conditions which make D+T ones "easy cake". Do your math.

3 - p+B reaction is NOT even that aneutronic (same problem, intermidiate reactions can follow neutron production paths) and its containement conditions make D+He-3 one look like "easy cake". Again, do your math.

Meanwhile solar energy requires nothing more than starting to build plants.

As I wrote in another thread, energy politics are dictated by:
1 - the need for power groups to prevent our countries to become indipendent (and indifferent) to Middle East politics;
2 - the need to handle military programs needs with civilian one (AFAIK, Fukushima are the usual bloody PWRs which are the worst possible design for a reactor... unless you need to contain space and weight, like on a navy vessel);
3 - the need for industrial and financial energy conglemerates not to change a single item in order to keep their earning to their current indecent levels.

Bye... and when dose rate is in the 1 Svh range, don't talk people about bananas: their are busy wretching (interesting stuff: early wretching is a nearly sure sign of a fatal exposure but lack of it is not necessarily a positive sign. In one accident in Russia, the victim had absorbed about 45 Sv and did not wretch. He died withing 3/4 days).

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