Nuclear Power is a great boondoggle. there is no increase in the
energy created by the use of uranium.
The energy is all added from an already available electrical source at
the TVA power line.
When the uranium is processed it is it not hot enough to boil water so
the uranium must be enriched to make it fuel for the nuclear power
plants.
This results in a loss of energy. Nuclear Power is consumer of energy
not a producer!
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Before you buy.
Wow. Are you ever smart for knowing that.
>When the uranium is processed it is it not hot enough to boil water
I should hope not. . .
>so
>the uranium must be enriched to make it fuel for the nuclear power
>plants.
Ummmm. . . Enriched uranium isn't hot enough to boild water either? Even
weapons grade isn't.
Candu's use natural uranium, by the way.
>This results in a loss of energy. Nuclear Power is consumer of energy
>not a producer!
Such an interesting way you "proved" that.
--
Karl Johanson, Victoria B.C. Canada
-It's okay to disagree with me. However, once I explain where you're
wrong you're supposed to become enlightened & change your mind.
Congratulating me on how smart I am is optional.
"ace^" <az...@my-deja.com> wrote in message
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>
>
> Nuclear Power is a great boondoggle. there is no increase in the
> energy created by the use of uranium.
> The energy is all added from an already available electrical source at
> the TVA power line.
> When the uranium is processed it is it not hot enough to boil water so
> the uranium must be enriched to make it fuel for the nuclear power
> plants.
> This results in a loss of energy. Nuclear Power is consumer of energy
> not a producer!
They're going to pull the plug on them on the first All Fool's Day of
the new millenium in 2001. What fun it will
Enrichment of Uranium doesn't require that much energy, the amount of power
that nuclear plants can get from Uranium is much higher, as for it not being
hot enough to boil water when it is ore it isn't but when fission occurs at
a high rate it is, as for the already available power source it would have
to be pretty f***ing powerful to be able to provide all the electricity that
nuclear provides, if energy were lost because of nuclear power it wouldn't
exist, that is the straight fact of the matter.
There are some reactors that can run on natural Uranium and don't need
enriched fuel so you should do a little research into reactor technology
before you say it is all a hoax.
-- Enrichment of Uranium doesn't require that much energy, the amount
of power
that nuclear plants can get from Uranium is much higher, as for it not
being
hot enough to boil water when it is ore it isn't but when fission
occurs at
a high rate it is, as for the already available power source it would
have
to be pretty f***ing powerful to be able to provide all the electricity
that
nuclear provides, if energy were lost because of nuclear power it
wouldn't
exist, that is the straight fact of the matter.
There are some reactors that can run on natural Uranium and don't need
enriched fuel so you should do a little research into reactor technology
before you say it is all a hoax.
Ryan Healey,
You should look at the facts.
Uranium is enriched and used because countries without a souce of
energy require it. Not because it is an efficient use of energy.
There are no power plants that use refined fuel that is not enriched.
Energy that is added is the energy removed from the process by fission.
That energy began as coal burning in a power plant.
There is no gain from the process and there is a great loss.
Fission only occurs when the uranium is at a high level of
radioacitvity which is reached by enrichment of the fuel by the breeder
reactor at Paducah. The high level of radioactivity is not available in
the natural product. The uranium is used to store the energy from the
electric power generated at the power plant then released as radiation
which heats the water and produces the steam that turns the generator
to produce the electricity.
It is a circular process that causes a great loss of the net energy.
Can you see that?
Azel Beckner
ace^ wrote:
> Ryan Healey,
> You should look at the facts.
> Uranium is enriched and used because countries without a souce of
> energy require it. Not because it is an efficient use of energy.
> There are no power plants that use refined fuel that is not enriched.
Incorrect, CANDU reactors do this and so do the little old
Magnox reactors in Britain.
>
> Energy that is added is the energy removed from the process by fission.
> That energy began as coal burning in a power plant.
> There is no gain from the process and there is a great loss.
France's 58 nuclear power reactors, and many others in Europe,
are all provided with enriched uranium by the Tricastin enrichment
plant, which gets its power from just four of those same reactors.
(Isn't that still a gaseous diffusion plant? Centrifuge plants
use a lot less energy. I think one reactor could power a centrifuge
plant that would feed the whole world.)
[snip]
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$1 uranium = ca. $133 petroleum = ca. $116 natural gas.
Electricity? Hydrogen? No, the indirect nukemobile power-taps
distant reactors through the fifth element, ~boron~. See
http://members.xoom.com/I2M/boron_blast.html or
http://www.eagle.ca/~gcowan/boron_blast.html .
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Uranium is not enriched using breeder reactors, that is something anyone
who knows about nuclear power would know. The CANDU reactors use natrual
Uranium which hasn't been enriched.
To enrich Uranium it is combined with flourine to form Uranium hexaflouride
UF6(g), which is then run through a magnetic field, the 235U is lighter and
goes through quicker, thereby meaning that there is more 235U in the sample
that gets through first, the other way involves a centrifuge. Neither of
those processes requires very much energy and over one cycle would have
produced more energy then was required to enrich it (by a few orders of
magnitude).
BTW: Do you think that the USS Nautilus was solar powered?
Graham Cowan wrote:
>
>
>
> ace^ wrote:
>
> > Ryan Healey,
> > You should look at the facts.
> > Uranium is enriched and used because countries without a souce of
> > energy require it. Not because it is an efficient use of energy.
> > There are no power plants that use refined fuel that is not enriched.
>
> Incorrect, CANDU reactors do this and so do the little old
> Magnox reactors in Britain.
>
> >
> > Energy that is added is the energy removed from the process by fission.
> > That energy began as coal burning in a power plant.
> > There is no gain from the process and there is a great loss.
>
> France's 58 nuclear power reactors, and many others in Europe,
> are all provided with enriched uranium by the Tricastin enrichment
> plant, which gets its power from just four of those same reactors.
>
> (Isn't that still a gaseous diffusion plant? Centrifuge plants
> use a lot less energy. I think one reactor could power a centrifuge
> plant that would feed the whole world.)
>
Yes. And it doesn't use anything like all the output from the four
reactors on the site.
A company called URENCO, a joint venture of, the Brits, Dutch, and
Germans, has a commercial centrifuge plant in each of those countries
that gives the French and US GDPs serious competition. See:
73,
JohnW