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Posted 2/6/12
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After Japan’s Fukushima nuclear catastrophe, the reaction was immediate: Germany shuttered its seven oldest nuclear-powered electric …
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After Japan’s Fukushima nuclear catastrophe, the reaction was immediate: Germany shuttered its seven oldest nuclear-powered electric generating plants and announced that the rest would be closed by 2022. Switzerland abandoned plans to build three new nuclear plants and decided not to extend the lives of their current five. France and other countries too dependent on uranium-fired generators to give them up mandated stringent safety reviews and improvements. This past November, French Socialist presidential hopeful Francois Hollande made nuclear power a hot button issue by promising, if elected in May, he would shut down 24 nuclear reactors by 2025.
But, even after the object lesson of Fukushima, the global use of nuclear power will continue to grow. China and India haven’t swerved from their plans to build reactors for decades to come. Even in the U.S., where nuclear generating plants face years of regulatory review and political protest, companies are moving ahead with designs for a new generation of small, portable nuclear reactors.
The issue isn’t that we’re using the wrong form of power. In our exclusive Special Report (click here to access), Ben Daviss, our Science Contributing Editor, makes the case that industry has just made a poor choice of fuel. Substituting thorium – an obscure, abundant, mildly radioactive element – in place of uranium can make nuclear power a cleaner, safer (though not trouble-free) alternative to fossil fuels. Now thorium’s champions are beginning to make themselves heard, and you’re hearing it from the Trends Journal.
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Gerald Celente
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What happened to cold fusion? Given up on it already?
Fantastic opportunity to block Iran in advancing by withholding this technology, further we must demand all of the middle east to give up their sovereign rights...for humanitarian reasons of course...I am A Peace Prize Weiner and I approve this message ;)
Thorium fuel cycle is promising, but there is technology with even greater potential - energy amplifier:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_amplifier
Basically, it breaks down heavy elements by high-energy proton beam. This way, it can "burn" almost anything... including all those dangerous, very-long-lived fission products, thousands and thousands tons of which currently rot away in various depositories around the world. But of course, energy amplifiers won't be built during our lifetimes - there are still much technically simpler ways to generate energy.
Besides, abundant energy means cheap energy. What is the point of selling something for cheap? You can make much more money by artificially choking the supply and thus driving up the price. Big energy shareholders surely know that!
Tesla Tech would solve everybody's needs...
Cold fusion will become available in 6 years, coming out from Germany. All those who invest in nuclear power will cry.