Thursday, Sep 28, 2006 at 21:08
Footloose,
yep agree with you 100% but.........most people confuse two important issues in this area and, I do digress a little here but in a way it all relates to the efforts put in by the great Len and his crew. I guess it all boils down to Uranium and a lot of other ingredients. Uranium used for the use of Nuclear Weapons.......yep not good. Uranium, which they have recently found a crap load of in SA and should, and I mean should, be used for clean energy.....a very different story. Huge $$$ for the economy and sometimes unfortunately we are in a world driven by economy. Latest findings in SA will produce some 30 Billion bucks for the economy. This breaks down to somewhere in the vicinity of 20 to 30 thousand jobs over the next two decades....This is huge BUT......so long as the Uranium does not go to the wrong use. BIG Problem. Hence all the media WRT selling the product to countries that have signed the Non Nuclear Weapon agreement........then at the end of the day, what's a signature.
See, the word Nuclear does not mean bombs. I have worked on US warships that were Nuclear but did not have a nuclear weapon on board. A nuclear powered ship is basically a steam engine....like all US Aircraft carriers and most subs, its just that the steam is created by dropping the uranium rods into salt
water which develops steam and as the rods almost never wear out there you have a continuous energy source. In this example the problem is...what happens to the rods if the ship is sunk!!! Used to create electricity its a potentially never ending energy source with no.......except like what happened in the disaster in Europe as described below.
Double edged sword I guess.
The thing that I am really impressed about is the fact that I remembered to use the spullchicker for this war and peiice articel :-)
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