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    • Nuclear Power's Second Coming Will Lead to a Uranium Boom [view article]
      Take the dangers of meltdown, proliferation and disposal of spent nuclear fuel out of nuclear and what do you get?... pebble bed reactors. "Walk away" safe (as in if everything goes wrong you can walk away, grab a pizza, and come back and deal with it at your leisure... they don't have hot cores that need to be cooled constantly), can be built for a fraction of the cost of current nuke designs, low-grade fuel is easily recycled. A few have been built and proven as prototypes (Germany, S. Africa) and have won the approval of some prominent environmentalists. I am not a proponent of nukes as we know them (prohibitively risky, even if the risks are very minute), but if you can take the downside out of nukes, all you have left is power.

      Upgrade our electrical grid's infrastructure and security, put some pebble beds on line, and let's start plugging in our EV cars. Here is a link to learn more about pebble bed reactors... it's a new way of looking at nukes.

      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...       Jul 10 09:55 AM
    • GE: Nuclear Growth Galore [view article]
      If you want to have a thorough discussion on the future of nuclear, check out "pebble bed reactors"... wikipedia is a good place to start. THEY, not traditional nuke plants, are where we are headed. I am a "green" guy, had a longstanding objection to traditional nukes despite technological improvements, namely the remote yet prohibitively high risks of disaster/proliferation... I had to be dragged kicking and screaming to the topic of pebble bed reactors. Now I, along with a surprising number of prominent environmentalists and scientists, see nukes (pebble beds!) as a promising piece of our green, sustainable energy mix. They are "walk away" safe... a term meaning that if everything went wrong at a pebble bed, you could walk away, get a pizza, come back and calmly figure it out. The fuel is low grade, not weapons grade. The used fuel can be recycled and reused. No possibility of meltdown... their core doesn't even require coolant. They can be small or large to accommodate local grid demands, are exponentially cheaper to build (modular design and construction... no big "one-of-a-kind&qu... engineering behemoths). Worth a peek. There are currently two or three prototypes being built/tested on the planet, one in S. Africa. Check it out. Feb 28 11:27 AM
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