[NukeNet] Toshiba Builds 100x Smaller Micro Nuclear Reactor

[Mary Olson]

Thanks Janet -- we are in it thick these days! I am sad that many people 
don't know or have forgotten that the "first generation" (may it be the 
ONLY) of reactors was built under Democratic congresses -- I was pleased 
to see the big fight in the Energy Bill about nuclear loan guarantees -- 
but in the end they still got a bunch ($18.5 billion!!! Plus $2 billion 
for enrichment) -- so it is a big reminder that we have to build a 
MOVEMENT that says NO! I am constantly being told by well intended 
people that we need "pretty talk" -- to only talk about the positive 
good things that are possible (wind and solar and efficiency) -- but I 
don't see how we are ever going to get that good stuff when they keep 
feeding the monster! Building new reactors will give the big engineering 
firms a jobs program (I don't mean for workers) -- Bechtel, Kellog Brown 
and Root -- all that gang -- is, as Jim Riccio has pointed out the group 
that is going to GET the billions.

No Nukes, No Coal, No Kidding,
Mary Olson
NIRS Southeast

Janette Sherman wrote:
> NukeNet Anti-Nuclear Network (nukenet at energyjustice.net)
>
> Ah yes, nuclear sources and waste in every neighborhood.  Those of  
> you who have a smattering of knowledge about chemistry may remember  
> that if Lithium gets wet, it reacts with avery powerful explosion.
> The energy bill contained no money for re-newables such as solar and  
> wind. Solar panels can last 30 years, and they emit no radiation.
> Our president today  calls for nuk-you-ler, failing to pronounce or  
> understand nuclear energy.  It is NOT carbon-free.  Enormous amounts  
> of carbon-based energy is used to mine, refine, and transport  
> uranium.  Then energy is used (usually coal-fired) to separate the  
> U-235 from the ore.  More energy is used to store the depleted  
> uranium (U-238), to produce steel and concrete to build reactors.   
> And don't forget the carbon-based fuel needed by those to get to work  
> to guard reactors.  And fuel to transport the spent fuel to, to....  
> where ever that may be.
> Janette D. Sherman, M. D.
> www.janettesherman.com
>
>
>
> On Dec 20, 2007, at 12:31 PM, Mike Ewall wrote:
>
>   
>> NukeNet Anti-Nuclear Network (nukenet at energyjustice.net)
>>
>>
>> Oh boy... neighborhood nukes...
>>
>>
>> December 17, 2007
>>
>> Toshiba Builds 100x Smaller Micro Nuclear Reactor
>>
>> Toshiba has developed a new class of micro size Nuclear Reactors  
>> that is
>> designed to power individual apartment buildings or city blocks.  
>> The new
>> reactor, which is only 20 feet by 6 feet, could change everything for
>> small remote communities, small businesses or even a group of  
>> neighbors
>> who are fed up with the power companies and want more control over  
>> their
>> energy needs.
>>
>> The 200 kilowatt Toshiba designed reactor is engineered to be fail- 
>> safe
>> and totally automatic and will not overheat. Unlike traditional  
>> nuclear
>> reactors the new micro reactor uses no control rods to initiate the
>> reaction. The new revolutionary technology uses reservoirs of liquid
>> lithium-6, an isotope that is effective at absorbing neutrons. The
>> Lithium-6 reservoirs are connected to a vertical tube that fits  
>> into the
>> reactor core. The whole whole process is self sustaining and can last
>> for up to 40 years, producing electricity for only 5 cents per  
>> kilowatt
>> hour, about half the cost of grid energy.
>>
>> Toshiba expects to install the first reactor in Japan in 2008 and to
>> begin marketing the new system in Europe and America in 2009.
>>
>>
>> Mike Ewall
>> Energy Justice Network
>> 215-743-4884
>> catalyst at actionpa.org
>> http://www.energyjustice.net
>>
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