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To: hmaly who wrote (184708)	3/15/2004 1:03:13 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1574002

Ted Re...Fission uses pure U-235......best estimates are there is a 35-40 year supply. Breeders would lengthen that usage period considerably but they are unstable and no one wants to fool with them. Man, I can't believe how close you were with that guess. You were only off by 5 billion yrs, not 50, 500, 5 mln, or 500 mln, but really 5 billion yrs. I don't plan on living that long. "Nuclear energy, assuming breeder reactors, will last for several billion years, i.e. as long as the sun is in a state to support life on earth." The above is from your link. I never disagreed with this premise. Breeder reactors work by wrapping U-235 with U-238 [which is plentiful] and converts it to plutonium which can be productive for years. This is not news except maybe to you. However, the problem is that breeders are inherently unstable and no one wants to risk building them. I don't understand why you perpetuate these arguments. Do you think that others have not thought it through? Do you think they or I don't want an easy solution to this problem? Who needs to worry about future energy sources? Who needs wars that are started to protect our oil interests? Its all BS.