| Topic: | Re:Re:DoW: Should we go nuclear? | |
| Posted by: | Jeff Gear | |
| Date/Time: | 10/01/05 20:38:00 |
| Jonathan - "And in the future fusion power still beckons - twenty, thirty years away? - Is that too long to wait?" Well, perhaps yes. Theroux's thrust was that drastic reduction of carbon emissions was now so urgent that we had to take a chance on sensible solutions to nuclear waste disposal being developed. The only way to decimate carbon emissions was to switch to nuclear power, which, given the will to do so, could be achieved in a decade. In part, the program interested me so much through the coincidence that I watched it in the company of an old friend visiting from Japan. He's a UK scientist who has worked on the development of fusion power for 30 years, and currently part of the international project in Japan. Unfortunately I get the impression that significant power generation from fusion reactors is still more than 30 years away. On the positive side it seems that fusion reactors - themselves clean - could be used to break down other radioactive waste as a sideline operation... Jeff |