…eenhouse gas. A small negative for the PR campaign of the ‘cleanliness’ of natural gas. Joel Riddle I too read the Spiegel article and had a few quick beefs/critiques. 1. Do Russian reactor welds not get QC and radiographic inspections to ensure they were of proper quality/craftsmanship? 2. Saying that Plutonium is “completely useless for civilian purposes” is quite untrue. Plutonium bred during normal operation in conventional nuclear reactors pr…
…it should be pretty obvious to many people in North America who are shivering under a polar vortex that an energy system that depends on energy conservation, “cheap natural gas”, wind and solar energy is not a great foundation for strength, prosperity or even comfort….
…probably possible to trace some of the Socialist Party funding to Russian natural gas interests. Russia loves its own nukes, but spends quite a bit of time and money spreading propaganda (FUD) about the nuclear programs in its customer and competitor nations. France’s domestic nuclear plants help to keep it independent of Russian gas, and France’s nuclear electricity exports help its neighbors reduce their purchases of Russian gas. The unreliable…
…clear processing facility and coming out as liquid fuels, replacements for natural gas, ammonia/nitrates, sequesterable biochar and stable ash or slag, wouldn’t it? John ONeill Implying that reactors can only safely be built thousands of miles from anywhere, on uninhabited islands, means you’ve already lost the argument – nuclear can’t be safe. Instead we should be building plants that are demonstrably safe enough to put right next to a city, so t…
…a lack of seismic vulnerability to damage, and the effects of low natural gas prices. However, it is false to assert that there are many nuclear plants operating beyond their initial license period of 40 years; Oyster Creek is the oldest currently operating facility in the US and it just recently reached its 40th year of operation. It is also false to imply that the license period has anything to do with the safe operational longevity of a nuclea…
…prices? Economically speaking, the most common way to increase the market price of a commodity is to artificially restrict the supply by preventing new suppliers from entering the market. Competitive products are not sold on a cost-plus basis; they are priced based on the balance between supply and demand. George Carty “I do not worry about an Iranian bomber drooping a bomb on NYC. I worry about an untraceable photocopier delivered to an upper fl…
…ry at least 30% more energy, giving them higher speed and increased range. Natural gas is not energy dense at all; even under extremely high pressure a tank of gas contains less than 40% of the energy that would be contained in the same tank if it was oil or one of its derivatives. Oil burns cleaner than coal; oil furnaces still supply large quantities of heat to homes in neighborhoods where coal fired stoves would be exceedingly unwelcome because…
…laced in the mainstream of commerce to stand on their own feet without the artificial stimulation and artificial distortion of taxpayer-financed subsidies.” In December 1970, legislation was passed that eliminated section 104(b) as a licensing option for any new reactor projects. Plants that had already been issued class 104(b) licenses could continue using those licenses, but their ability to lease fuel from the AEC was halted as of 1973. My gues…
…el is just 65 cents per million BTU. That compares to coal at $2.50-$4.00, natural gas at $3.50-$15.00 and oil at >$20.00. Here is what the Nuclear Energy Institute’s commercial nuclear fuel cost number includes: This cost is based upon the amortized costs associated with the purchasing of uranium, conversion, enrichment, and fabrication services along with storage and shipment costs, and inventory (including interest) charges less any expected sa…
…al. Perhaps a multi-decade gas glut will largely kill coal off. Then, when gas prices rise again, the political atmosphere will be such that we will not respond by returning to coal, but instead will increase the use of nuclear and renewables. Rod Adams @Jim Hopf I had a different response to that article. It clearly indicates the incredibly large motives that gas marketers and suppliers have to try to demonize other fuel sources so that they can,…
…forsee a window of opportunity for nuclear in about 3-5 years when natural gas prices rebound as much of it is exported making the apparent price of renewables much more expensive. The ending of state subsidies for solar panel nanufacturers in China will also raise the cost of renewables. Then there are the tariffs on imports from China. Any nuclear option would have to be deployed rapidly at predictable cost and prove itself in service as a relia…
…ompany or a government dependent upon the taxes collected from the sale of natural gas be quietly providing the funds and gently guiding the actions of environmental groups that focus on slowing the development of new energy sources? Aren’t they in the business that the environmentalists attack?” The economic fact is that the law of supply and demand works – and that people that really understand and get wealthy in commodity businesses like oil, c…
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