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OKIsItJustMe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-19-08 02:34 PM
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Fusion scientist disagrees with fission (argues in favor of wind)
http://www.sunvalleyonline.com/news/article.asp?ID_Article=4521

Fusion scientist disagrees with fission

By Gary Stivers
Monday, January 14, 2008

Nuclear power is suddenly one of the hottest energy topics for Idaho. Three plants have been proposed over the past year, and the industry is hoping for revival across the country with the new focus on producing electricity without climate-changing carbon pollution.

Nuclear fusion engineer Dr. Arjun Makhijani with the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research says while the projects have great P-R campaigns touting economic benefits, he says there are problems with the science, water use, and what to do with the nuclear waste. He says Idaho has a better energy production option already in its backyard.

"Wind energy’s generally more economical in the favorable parts of the state than nuclear energy," Makhijani said, "you don’t have the waste headaches and you don’t have any water use."

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Makhijani says power plant nuclear waste should be a sensitive issue for Idaho; where nuclear waste stored at I-N-L is threatening the Snake River Aquifer.

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sam sarrha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-19-08 02:39 PM
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1. do you mean Fission... Hydrogen fusion has no waste and there are no known operating reactors last i
heard.. would be nice tho
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OKIsItJustMe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-19-08 02:43 PM
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2. Right. (You misread the article)
He's a fusion scientist, arguing against fission.
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NNadir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-19-08 05:34 PM
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3. Nuclear fusion engineer?
Are you saying the anti-nuke fundie organization IEER has "fusion engineers" on its board?

Let's count the number of anti-nuke fundie organizations who know any math: Zero...zero...zero...zero...zero...

The amount of electricity produced by fusion energy is equivalent to the number of fundamentalist anti-nukes who can count: Zero...zero...zero...zero.

In fact, fusion is a toy, just as it has been for the last 50 years.

In fact, the number of dumb fundie anti-nukes - a fundie is a person who will not abandon dogma no matter how much science contradicts it - who understand that even if it worked - it doesn't - fusion would 1) Never be scalable and 2) depend entirely on a fission infrastructure.

I've covered this subject many times here, but fundie anti-nukes still come here all the time demonstrating that they have no clue where tritium comes from or where the world's largest supply of tritium is.

The world's largest supply of tritium is in Canada. It's a few tens of kilos. Now. You cannot be a fundie anti-nuke if you know any science - although many fundie anti-nukes come here with science fiction (which strangely enough has nothing to do with science). However it is easy to show by direct calculation that the world supply of tritium could run one power reactor - even if it ran at high efficiency - for a few months.

It is startling to recognize who anti-science and how illiterate fundamentalism really is.
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