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To: Triffin who wrote (421)	3/28/2012 11:17:30 AM
From: Triffin	Read Replies (1) of 868

BC: THE PATH NOT TAKEN .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. Consequences of The Path Not Taken .. You knew .. You knew at the very beginning .. You knew 50 years ago .. You knew the correct development path for civilian nuclear power reactors but chose instead to optimize nuclear fuel cycles for the production of weapons grade materials .. Alvin Weinberg knew ( Inventor of the Pressure Water Reactor ( PWR ) and former head of Oak Ridge National Laboratory ( ORNL ) .. Glenn Seaborg knew ( Discoverer of Plutonium and seven additional heavy elements, former Director of The Atomic energy Commission ( AEC ) .. Eugene Wigner knew ( Developed the Aqueous Homogenous Reactor ( AHR ) .. Edward Teller knew ( Principal developer of the Hydrogen or fusion bomb ) .. And Yet .. The unfortunate legacy of that singular decision is the world we find ourselves in now .. Not a world powered by abundant, cheap, and safe Molten Salt Breeder Reactors based on the Thorium fuel cycle; but rather a world characterized by resource wars for the control of finite fossil fuels ( Kuwait, Iraq, Afghanistan ), fears of nuclear "accidents" ( Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, Fukushima ), fears of nuclear proliferation ( North Korea, Pakistan, Iran ) .. The problems associated with the long term storage and security of highly radioactive partially burned nuclear fuel rod assemblies .. Having to deal with the consequences of Global Climate Change caused in part by our over reliance and over deployment of CO2 emitting coal fired power plants .. You knew ..

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