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Denison Mines: A Play on Escalating Uranium Demand

Had Carter let the breeder program go on up to the building and testing of a prototype, his questions would never get an answer. Proof of concept was needed and to address unanticipated problems as well as refine ideas. When this is all done, then the production proceeds. This is how new ideas get implemented. This is how the current nuclear plant designs got atarted and as you will concede, is working very well.

There are designs that addresses the terrorist and nuclear proliferation issues. We need cooperation beween all the world's nuclear scientists to address these issues. We cannot just go on and say it cannot be done. The alternative is Global Warming and the demise of the human civilization. Oh, people will not completely disappear from earth. It is probably safe to speculate that 5 % who are hardy and live in favorable locations will survive.

This should not really my concern for I will be around perhaps for only another 20 years.

Denison Mines: A Play on Escalating Uranium Demand

In response to john s. gordon, the next generation will come up with breeder reactors that use us the spent uranium today we consider waste. We only utilize 4% of the energy in the fuel in today's reactor designs. Research on breeder reactors (stopped by Carter, revived by Reagan, stopped again by Clinton) will develop reactors that will not only consume the remaining 96% but also 'breed' more fuel. Less waste will be produced and we will be generating electricity for ever and ever, until infinity.

The Indians, Chinese and Russians are into this research now. The Americans? They are still mulling over the 3 mile island accident where no one had died and hardly disrupted lives of people living around the plant.

The fires in Northern California and heavy rains and floods in midwest today will, in a few years, be looked back at as a consequence of weather patterns being altered by global warming. Yet, we delay using nuclear technology which is the only answer to furutre global warming related disasters. Unfounded fears and stupidity is what will do in the human civilization.