Comments on: Nuclear Power http://wordpress.mrreid.org ... the blog of Mr Reid, physics teacher Sat, 04 Feb 2012 12:07:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: rick marshall http://wordpress.mrreid.org/nuclear-power/comment-page-1/#comment-212 rick marshall Thu, 04 Mar 2010 18:15:37 +0000 http://wordpress.mrreid.org/?page_id=1304#comment-212 Once you have reactor grade uranium you nearly 75% of the way to having explosive grade uranium. ie to get 2.5% enrichment, starting with 1000kg of natural U you must remove 720 kg: 1000kg of nat U contains 7kg U235. For 7kg to be 2.5%, total = 280kg, so you must remove 1000 - 280 = 720kg. 90% enrichment removes most of the remaining 280kg ... you have already doen the majorrity of the "separative work" Once you have reactor grade uranium you nearly 75% of the way to having explosive grade uranium. ie to get 2.5% enrichment, starting with 1000kg of natural U you must remove 720 kg: 1000kg of nat U contains 7kg U235. For 7kg to be 2.5%, total = 280kg, so you must remove 1000 — 280 = 720kg. 90% enrichment removes most of the remaining 280kg … you have already doen the majorrity of the “separative work”

]]> By: V Sekhar http://wordpress.mrreid.org/nuclear-power/comment-page-1/#comment-189 V Sekhar Wed, 16 Sep 2009 13:54:53 +0000 http://wordpress.mrreid.org/?page_id=1304#comment-189 By the way. Thank u for providing links to download valuable book. I would not have found this book if I didn't visit your site read the matter. You have forced me to decide myself to visit your site time and again with your content. By the way. Thank u for providing links to download valuable book. I would not have found this book if I didn’t visit your site read the matter. You have forced me to decide myself to visit your site time and again with your content.

]]> By: V Sekhar http://wordpress.mrreid.org/nuclear-power/comment-page-1/#comment-188 V Sekhar Wed, 16 Sep 2009 13:47:21 +0000 http://wordpress.mrreid.org/?page_id=1304#comment-188 Really astonishing. But even according to your account it is something to d0 with latest and sophisticated technology. More and more care is needed. These things are possible only in richest countries like you and other western powers that are dictating the world according to their needs. We are seeing how North Korea and Iran are being prevented to start nuclear program for energy purposes. We have seen how Iraq was invaded and totally destroyed even after IAEA certified it had no WMD. Even if India signed agreement with the USA and NSG nations, so many sanctions, that too hidden, are in place. It should not possess recycling technology. Every nuclear site to be under constant surveillance of IAEA. (IAEA is none but the US and other West. Let us accept facts at least when we are talking about facts.) So India or any other country should not be sovereign enough even after buying technology. How could these problems be addressed? No matter 3rd world countries have vast reserves of Uranium or Thorium. They should not develop indigenous technology of their own! How dare they? What if they develop nuclear bombs or WMD? How could superpower-ship and hegemony be sustained? When these are the real things that matter to the US, England, Germany, France, Japan and so on..., can sustainable energy resources reach hundred above poor countries of the world? Really astonishing. But even according to your account it is something to d0 with latest and sophisticated technology. More and more care is needed. These things are possible only in richest countries like you and other western powers that are dictating the world according to their needs.
We are seeing how North Korea and Iran are being prevented to start nuclear program for energy purposes. We have seen how Iraq was invaded and totally destroyed even after IAEA certified it had no WMD.
Even if India signed agreement with the USA and NSG nations, so many sanctions, that too hidden, are in place. It should not possess recycling technology. Every nuclear site to be under constant surveillance of IAEA. (IAEA is none but the US and other West. Let us accept facts at least when we are talking about facts.) So India or any other country should not be sovereign enough even after buying technology.
How could these problems be addressed?
No matter 3rd world countries have vast reserves of Uranium or Thorium. They should not develop indigenous technology of their own! How dare they? What if they develop nuclear bombs or WMD? How could superpower-ship and hegemony be sustained?
When these are the real things that matter to the US, England, Germany, France, Japan and so on…, can sustainable energy resources reach hundred above poor countries of the world?

]]> By: Nuclear Power at Interesting09 « ligress http://wordpress.mrreid.org/nuclear-power/comment-page-1/#comment-187 Nuclear Power at Interesting09 « ligress Mon, 14 Sep 2009 10:39:37 +0000 http://wordpress.mrreid.org/?page_id=1304#comment-187 [...] out to be a good coctail of the fairly obscure,  the geeky and the occasionally controversial. One of my favourite talks was by Alby Reid, who spoke on the common misconceptions about nuclear power. His session’s flow was neatly [...] […] out to be a good coctail of the fairly obscure,  the geeky and the occasionally controversial. One of my favourite talks was by Alby Reid, who spoke on the common misconceptions about nuclear power. His session’s flow was neatly […]

]]> By: Russ Garrett http://wordpress.mrreid.org/nuclear-power/comment-page-1/#comment-186 Russ Garrett Sun, 13 Sep 2009 21:33:26 +0000 http://wordpress.mrreid.org/?page_id=1304#comment-186 Excellent talk - it's a real shame I couldn't get a ticket for Interesting this year. That said, I have to point out that you've mixed up Gigawatts and Gigawatt-hours in your paragraph about the DC link to France. That error always annoys me ;) Excellent talk — it’s a real shame I couldn’t get a ticket for Interesting this year.

That said, I have to point out that you’ve mixed up Gigawatts and Gigawatt-hours in your paragraph about the DC link to France. That error always annoys me ;)

]]> By: Interesting 2009 – forty even more interesting things – Roo Reynolds http://wordpress.mrreid.org/nuclear-power/comment-page-1/#comment-183 Interesting 2009 – forty even more interesting things – Roo Reynolds Sat, 12 Sep 2009 22:55:24 +0000 http://wordpress.mrreid.org/?page_id=1304#comment-183 [...] Reid told us that everything we knew about nuclear power was wrong (How many people died as a result of Chernobyl? [...] […] Reid told us that everything we knew about nuclear power was wrong (How many people died as a result of Chernobyl? […]

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