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To: Bread Upon The Water who wrote (125882)	11/30/2009 11:09:56 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542139

Neither can I. MAD has worked so far. Besides, in a few years, we'll all have to turn our swords into plowshares, or our plowshares will stop working. (Makes me wonder how we will open a nuke a week, or whatever). The world is about to enter a period of unprecedented investment in nuclear power. The combined threats of climate change, energy security and fears over the high prices and dwindling reserves of oil are forcing governments towards the nuclear option. The perception is that nuclear power is a carbon-free technology, that it breaks our reliance on oil and that it gives governments control over their own energy supply. That looks dangerously overoptimistic, says Michael Dittmar, from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich who publishes the final chapter of an impressive four-part analysis of the global nuclear industry on the arXiv today. Perhaps the most worrying problem is the misconception that uranium is plentiful. The world's nuclear plants today eat through some 65,000 tons of uranium each year. Of this, the mining industry supplies about 40,000 tons. The rest comes from secondary sources such as civilian and military stockpiles, reprocessed fuel and re-enriched uranium. "But without access to the military stocks, the civilian western uranium stocks will be exhausted by 2013, concludes Dittmar. technologyreview.com Meanwhile, back at the ranch Also on Sarkozy's agenda during his visit is the signing of an agreement on peaceful nuclear cooperation between Saudi Arabia and France that could lead to the sale of French atomic energy technology to the Gulf kingdom newsblaze.com King Abdullah to Haaretz: Jordan aims to develop nuclear power ... haaretz.com Egypt's nuclear plans threatened - The National Newspaper Oct 30, 2009 ... Egypt prepares to finalise plans for their first nuclear power plant but opposition from a developer puts the project at risk. thenational.ae