What do you get when you eat too much uranium?

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The Oil Drum posted a nice survey-level summary of nuclear power from the standpoint of energy sustainability.

Technically, there appear to be no show stoppers for a considerable expansion of Nuclear Power throughout the world. It is a low carbon energy source with abundant fuel supplies. The technology works and has much potential for improvement. Whether or not a large scale expansion eventuates depends on how it competes with Coal on economic grounds and with the public on political grounds. This in turn will be determined by the performance of the nuclear industry over the next few years as these purportedly cheaper and safer plants are built.

I think it is worth showing the final graph from M. King Hubberts' seminal paper "Nuclear Energy and the Fossil Fuels".

(Answer to subject line: Atomic ache. This is one of the first jokes I ever learned. It was from a book. I told it in a stand-up routine in a first-grade talent show.)

Comments

[cortezopossum.livejournal.com]

For years I've been a fan of nuclear power. I need no convincing here.

[chocorisu.livejournal.com]

More nuclear power would also provide an almost limitless supply of depleted uranium rounds to shoot at foreign people too, a boon in these uncertain times. Nobody is selling nuclear power on that aspect and I think the government would really go for it.

[dougo.livejournal.com]

Also, the radioactive green glow will hasten the mutation of the human species into the Singularity!

[jamesaach.livejournal.com]

If you'd like an insider's view of nuclear, see http://RadDecision.blogspot.com . And where did you find my picture to post?

[radtea.livejournal.com]

Interestingly, the solar and wind curves look exactly like the nuclear curve.

It's the demand curve that is more worrisome.