tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7597656451205429515.post8218196573546552397..comments2024-02-16T17:52:44.944-06:00Comments on The Nuclear Green Revolution: John Holdren curious statement on nuclear powerCharles Bartonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01125297013064527425noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7597656451205429515.post-85622157153737484792009-05-04T09:50:00.000-05:002009-05-04T09:50:00.000-05:00Don, we certainly can have nuclear proliferation w...Don, we certainly can have nuclear proliferation without civilian nucleasr power, and we can have civilian nuclear power without nuclear proliferation, thus to slaim that there is a strong link between the two seems to belong in the realm of cognative error. South Africa, and Pakastan developed nuclear weapons programs without fuel reprocessing, while no nation developed a weapons program from reprocessing Light Water Reactor fuel. In fact the reactors used for producing nucleare weapons grade material all used world war II heavy water or graphite technology. I wonder why Dr Holdren has not noticed this.Charles Bartonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01125297013064527425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7597656451205429515.post-88517810948059889012009-05-04T09:36:00.000-05:002009-05-04T09:36:00.000-05:00Charles Barton wrote:
Further he [Holdern] seems t...Charles Barton wrote:<br /><I>Further he [Holdern] seems to be offering an American policy towards large scale global nuclear deployment that appears to suggest that he believes that American views on proliferation will automatically prevail over the views of other countries.</I>Yeah, as if this worked really well when Jimmy Carter banned reprocessing of used fuel from light water reactors. That sure stopped the further development of nuclear weapons around the world, didn't it.<br /><br />Oops, the weapons development continued. Let's see, the French reprocess their used fuel. So weapons development must be the fault of those French people.<br /><br />Yeah, that's it, let's blame it on the French!<br /><br />How dumb can you get...?donbnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7597656451205429515.post-86898858954106484302009-05-03T18:01:00.000-05:002009-05-03T18:01:00.000-05:00Charles, some time ago I viewed an online video of...Charles, some time ago I viewed an online video of Holdren giving a talk about global warming. He glossed over nuclear energy as a part of "possible solutions" by commenting with the usual cost-waste-proliferation problems rhetoric. And yet, here he is, the chief science adviser. <br /><br />Perhaps the most obvious linkage of nuclear energy to weapons is on the part of the DOE for more than half its budget is dedicated toward the stewardship and development of nuclear weapons. This role ought to be parsed out from the DOE to another department so the bureaucratic relationship ends. I know of no other country which has this type of relationship with nuclear weapons stemming from an energy department.<br /><br />It is especially dismaying to see the likes of Holdren hold such a narrow and irresponsible view of nuclear energy. I read recently there are about 40 nuclear plants currently under construction world wide. If the USA is to maintain any relevance in the nuclear field, the attitude of support needs to start changing at the top.Jason Ribeirohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06863185203119704249noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7597656451205429515.post-72406859244255284022009-05-03T09:51:00.000-05:002009-05-03T09:51:00.000-05:00The shuttering of the waste repository, the push f...The shuttering of the waste repository, the push for wind and solar, and now waking-up the proliferation bogyman, coupled with huge discoveries of shale gas in the Louisiana Basin and The St. Lawrence Valley doesn't look good for the Nuclear Renaissance in the U.S.<br /><br />It is becoming increasingly clear to this non-American observer that the current US administration will not be supportive of nuclear energy beyond maintaining the status quo. Ironically, this may lead to a marginalization of American influence on nuclear matters world-wide which might have the effect of making the proliferation issue worse, not better.DV8 2XLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14595060432772287143noreply@blogger.com