Venezuela Set to Develop Nuclear Power... With Russia

Energy is dirt cheap there.

The lines of WW3 are being drawn.

 

The current cost to put anything into orbit is more than the cost of that same thing's weight in gold. At least that used to be true. Actually just checking the spot price, the the way gold has skyrocketed in the last several years the cost is about equal, but you get the idea (1 pound of gold = about $15,000). And that is just to low earth orbit.

To get it far enough away that it wouldn't fall right back down into the atmosphere within a couple of years would be quite a bit more expensive.

The way France manages the waste is that they reprocess and recycle it with exceptional efficiency. They are still left with a little bit of waste which must be stored, but not nearly as much as for a similar plant in the USA.

 

Not really. Gasoline is dirt-cheap to the consumers, but only because it's subsidized by our consumption.

 

Considering you would have to do it while it is in a huge concrete tomb that is not only abe to withstand a wrech on a freeway but a massive rocket explosion, I would say so.

 

You can get a lot more than $15,000 worth of energy from a pound of uranium.

 

how many pounds of concrete do you have to wrap it in?

 

Undoubtedly. IMO, we should be building nuclear plants left and right. The only point is that there are more cost effective ways to deal with the waste. The 'shoot in the sun' scenario has a nice finality, but isn't cost effective.

 

I agree. If I were the government, I'd allow anyone that meets safety requirements to build reactors, but I'd mandate reprocessing.

 

Nuclear plants have no future because of the waste problem and the very limited uranium. It is much worse than oil.

 

Except both of those problems are solved by reprocessing.

Not to mention, that you can make breeder reactors and make all the fissionable material you want.

 

This is the price we pay for american hypocrisism. We support the independence of Kosovo - and yet we don't allow self-determination in other areas such as South Ossetia???

And when Russia takes over - a population strongly sympathetic to itself...we take a hard line. Imagine if there was an island off of Cuba but close to florida, that was techniquely cuba but filled with pro-americans who loved America and dreamed of freedom, but felt persecuted by Cuba for it.

American peacekeepers are there, Cuba invades. So we counter to protect them and kick Cuba out.

Now Russia comes along and send ships over and takes a hardline against us. They also send nuclear technology to Venezuela. We'd throw a fit and of course play tit-for-tat.

And you expect Russia not to play this game in return????

So foolish. We don't need another cold war. Why is Bush/McCain doing this?

 

Because you'd have to be an idiot to build a power plant fueled by gasoline.

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