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Originally Posted by citanon
Breeder reactors are more energy efficient because they use up essentially all of the extractable unstable isotopes through repeated cycles of fission. Therefore they produce minimal long-term radioactive waste compared to reactors currently in use. It's the security of the nuclear weapons grade intermediates that you need to worry about. 
For truly economical solar panels (as opposed to everything that currently exists on the market or even in the pipeline), I doubt that manufacturing or disposal would be more of a concern than, say, the production of paint or the printing of magazines. This is because, to become economical, future solar panels will have to utilize similar chemistries and similar manufacturing processes. |
LMFBR's will not be used in the US. For safety reasons they will stick with the PWR design. The safety over the increase in efficiency is worth it in safety terms, as that is their number one goal. There is on going research when it comes to Power plants, both nuclear and non nuclear. As I have said in the past, I am opposed to cap and trade, and carbon tax crap (carbon tax being the worse of the two). It will do nothing but hinder the further innovation and production of HEEC's (high efficiency environmental controls).
I always thought that McCain would have a more realistic view on the environment. It's supposed to be the straight talk express, but he fails to realize that we have made tremendous progress already, and are continuing on with it also. His plan of cap and trade will hurt further progress and cost tax payers more, as it will be just another "fee". We have enough of those "Fee's" already.
Many people ignore the progress and make it seem like we have accomplished nothing, and are not doing anything about the environment. The facts show we have, plain and simple.
People need to stop using the "suppose we are wrong and there is no such thing as climate change and we adapt green technologies all we've done is given our children a cleaner world, suppose we are right about climate change and do nothing, then what have we done for our kids"
They still have yet to prove it, they still fail to realize that we have been doing something and have made substantial progress already. We are not "doing nothing", and we have already done a lot for our kids. The US has been getting cleaner. So why should Americans have to pay for other countries that choose not to use HEEC's? That is BS.