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Yes I have heard about breeders. The problem with using them is the same with using any traded fossil fuel. You are not really getting rid of the problem of having to pay for the fuel in the first place. Yes they might be more a lot more efficient but you still need the fuel; What do you think would happen if the supplier suddenly noticed that he was getting smaller and smaller orders?
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I'm sorry, I really don't understand your thinking. In the case that nuclear was to be the basis for a global solution to the problem of CO2 emissions, then uranium supply would be guaranteed through international treaty. End of story.
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Please tell me what you mean by stable? The element is still radioactive and will continue to decay. It is this procedure of decay that causes the health problems of radioactive poisoning.
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I mean that it can be handled safely and stored.
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Producing more nuclear waste does nothing to help us achieve that goal,
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Neither does producing concentrated CO2, as in the case of carbon capture.
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and nor does wasting £billions on subsidizing an already well established corporation.
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So shut the corporation down and start again.
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Do you think that if I had a company that was not doing so well, that the government would happily just give me a few billions?
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Why not? They seem to be doing that quite successfully with Northern Rock.
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Surely it makes a lot more sense to have used the billions wasted on BNFL to build renewable energy power stations? You know one day all the resources will be gone, and we will have nothing to keep us running, but there will be several EXTREMELY wealthy individuals rushing to move to Wales.
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You've heard of the conservation of energy? I'm quite certain that if we stop trying to reinvent primitive technologies that we stopped using generations ago, and instead focussed on fusion research, we'd solve that problem within a generations or two. In the meantime, fission can provide more energy than we could possibly use.