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MonteRCMS
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https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=13731
https://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/update/
Hydro and nuclear are the cleanest.
Hydro is basically all used up … no additional sources available … [Canada & Norway have lots of hydro.]
Nuclear requires a masters degree. And/or a LOT OF READING
http://www.hiroshimasyndrome.com
Canada has done a fabulous job with nuclear power: Uranium and nuclear power facts
India is working on using Thorium instead of Uranium.
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tomarin
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Yes, I’ve always been a big fan of nuclear power for that reason (cleanliness). I guess it has its own problems though.
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MonteRCMS
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The U.S. gets 20% of its electricity from nuclear.
France gets 80% of its electricity from nuclear.
Why such a huge disparity?
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tomarin
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And Japan too is or used to be highly dependent on nuclear energy. Why the disparity? I think it’s an irrational fear of nuclear power but what the source is other than popular culture (the Simpsons, etc.) I couldn’t say. Actually I think it’s more likely that popular culture reflects that sentiment rather than generates it.
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Theo520
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The problems are more hype than reality.
I’ll know the world is serious about controlling CO2 when they go big on nuclear.
‘Safer’ thorium reactor trials could salvage nuclear power
A Dutch nuclear research institute is conducting the first experiment in close to five decades on molten-salt nuclear reactors based on thorium. Long hailed as a potential "safer" nuclear power, thorium reactor research could provide clean, affordable and "large-scale energy production." That's...
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tomarin
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Yeah, right? It’s almost enough for me to have a bumper sticker printed up (in fact I may just quote your post on my bumper sticker if that’s all right).
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MonteRCMS
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Japan had ~ 52 nuclear reactors, but owing to blind panic, shut all of them down after the earthquake/ tidal wave in 2011. About nine have been restarted so far.
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tomarin
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Yes, but they restarted many of them again, no? (Ah, sorry I just saw the second part of your post.)
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Theo520
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Virtually all of the related deaths came from evacuating people instead of sheltering in place.
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MonteRCMS
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A May 2012 United Nations committee report stated that _none of the six Fukushima workers who had died_* since the tsunami had died from radiation exposure. According to a 2012 Yomiuri Shimbun survey, 573 deaths have been certified as “disaster-related” by 13 municipalities affected by the Fukushima nuclear disaster.
- [they died in falls from ladders]
[The number of confirmed deaths is 15,894 as of June 10, 2016, according to the reconstruction agency. More than 2,500 people are still reported missing.]
Japan Earthquake & Tsunami of 2011: Facts and Information
The Great Tohoku earthquake destroyed more than 100,000 buildings and triggered a nuclear disaster.
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MonteRCMS
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The disparity results because France decided not to be dependent on the Mid-East for energy any further.
Energy independence.
So, now, France has its own reactor designs, which it sells all over the world … AND which are “based” on American designs and which they have improved upon. France mines Uranium in Niger … if you visit Google Earth or Zillow you can “visit” the open pit mines [immediately east of the airport at “Arlit”].
NIGELEC - Wikipedia
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MonteRCMS
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If the energy thing is of interest, check this out:
www.power-eng.com
AND also subscribe to “Pipeline & Gas Journal” … free … tell them that you’re a consultant.
www.pgjonline.com
Power Industry And Energy News | Power Engineering
Power Engineering provides energy news daily, information about the POWERGEN International conference and exhibition, as well as a free weekly e-newsletter.
www.power-eng.com
AND also subscribe to “Pipeline & Gas Journal” … free … tell them that you’re a consultant.
www.pgjonline.com
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Ridgerunner
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One wonders what France does with its nuclear waste. Must be a lot of it. They used to dump it at sea around French Polynesia. Then I believe they shipped it to Russia to be buried in some secret place nobody knew much about. I don’t know what they do with it now. I think they just put it in temporary storage pending some kind of deep underground thing.
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Theo520
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They have deep underground storage. Nuclear produces far lest waste than any other form of power generation, including solar.
How France is disposing of its nuclear waste
Could the UK emulate France's approach to the deep disposal of nuclear waste?
www.bbc.co.uk
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tomarin
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I thought they and the Japanese had found some way of safely recycling and reusing it? Sounds too good to be true, I know.
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Ridgerunner
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my impression is that they don’t really have that worked out yet. Probably they’ll end up putting it in those tunnels, all right, but I don’t think they are now.
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MonteRCMS
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France has A LOT of A-380 Super Jumbo airplanes that have been returned to Airbus … they can be used to FR-EX the stuff back to Niger for disposal in abandoned strip mines.
www.independent.co.uk
[In real life, they reprocess the depleted fuel.]
[ La Hague site - Wikipedia ]
Secondhand 'SuperJumbo' A380s finally find a buyer
Airbus still believes there is potential for new orders for the A380 because of the unrelenting growth of aviation
www.independent.co.uk
[In real life, they reprocess the depleted fuel.]
[ La Hague site - Wikipedia ]
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Ridgerunner
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Yiiiiiiiiii! I avoided suggesting that, but it did occur to me as a possibility
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Theo520
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I don’t follow this comment, Europe has significantly increased their wood pellet imports because it is ‘green’
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