The USS Reagan was part of the operation "Tomodachi" to deliver essential supplies to devastated communities in the wake of the Tsunami on March 11, 2011. Uranium once burned is gone forever. It can also be said that in the absence of cheap energy; people suffer and death rates soar. So maybe the 30,000 coal deaths per year are not too low an estimate if you count lost life years tooHave a look at the average efficency of the coal and CCGT plants in the USA compared to new ones.Calculate how much less coal and gas you would use if you upgraded those stations to new ones.Figure out the cost of the upgrades and the savings in less fuel usedAlso try to figure out how many homes/offices/retail in the USA are eletrically heated and how many could reasonably be converted to gas boilers. The transmission in either 1-5 or 6 would not use eminent domain but royalties payed to land owners yearly at least until they sell the land. I would imagine a coal miners life expectancy is noticeably lower than the average. These people have exposures several times greater than 6.2 mSv/yr during their treatment periods.– More than 500 atmospheric atomic device detonations released about 70 billion curies; almost all of it is from instantaneous, short-life, gammy radiation, little from medium and long-life isotopes.– Chernobyl, 1986, released about 100 million curies; most of it spread as medium and long-life isotopes over a large geographical area; the plant had no concrete containment vessel, as many other former USSR plants.Radioactive iodine concentrates in the thyroid which may cause thyroid cancer 2-3 years after exposure. Compared to a gas boiler which is 92% efficent.Someone should post about this, the energy saving in upgrading coal and gas plants.No Davis, You are the one getting things wrong, and I wonder why the website’s admin allow a discourteous bomb thrower with shady “facts” to continue spouting abuse at others.I attempted to follow some of your leads, links, and comments. Some say France is over invested in nuclear and must sell power to other countries or dump onto market for space or water heat. In 2012, it sent only 0.8 TW-h (of 67 TW-h) while receiving 13 TW-h. Germany's exports go to the Netherlands (34%), Austria (22%), and Switzerland (19%). The Fukushima exposures are below the levels that would cause adverse health effects, taking into account exposure from the atmosphere and ingestion from food. Weatherization and energy efficiency programs can provide jobs and savings for the most vulnerable communities.Case studies are a good way to bolster your utility's public relations portfolio and provide insight to the public in how responding to weather events has improved your responses to future events.It’s not so much that there’s anything radical in this article that is perhaps important. It is long overdue. BUT, I don't think anyone is planning on starting "executions" anytime soon. Or would you just build capacity to match the peak load and shut down generation as load declines?so you both would start executions based on whatever parameters you deem as unworthy, Rather than replace fossil fuel powered electrical generating facilities!Thank you for having the courage to start a discussion about population growth. Deaths From Increased Use of Fossil Fuels: After the Fukushima tsunami, Japan idled almost all of its nuclear plants and used energy from fossil fuels to make up for the nuclear energy. The absolute necessity of removing all existing "temporary" storage to secure geologic storage.5. Of all the children exposed by drinking milk from 1986 to 2002, 16 years, about 4,000 were diagnosed with thyroid cancer. The dividend the state receives every year more than compensate for that.Then the ecologists claims EDF by far does not put enough money for dismatlement, they claim it's an outrage, it's absolute nonsense, see UK spends so much more for Sellafield, nobody can do dismantlement at such a low cost. If we do not introduce humane ethical and effictive feedback mechanisms, nature will reapply the natural ones resulting in unprecidented human suffering.Well like horse meat, it may be just as safe and cheaper than beef but most of us, if given a choice, still wouldn't eat it - a personal choice that has a lot of emotion/gut feel around it.Also Willem, if we do go the nuclear route instead of renewables because it's cheaper,safer, etc.
By that time we would have real world knowledge from pilot plants about the cost of various nuclear technologies7. "Actually, Germany exports surprisingly little energy to France.