Comments on: Stuff for Chu to chew over http://climateprogress.org/2008/12/16/stuff-for-steven-chu-to-worry-about/ The Latest on Climate Science, Solutions, and Politics Sun, 22 Nov 2009 03:53:37 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Asteroid Miner http://climateprogress.org/2008/12/16/stuff-for-steven-chu-to-worry-about/#comment-25014 Asteroid Miner Thu, 18 Dec 2008 08:29:24 +0000 http://climateprogress.org/2008/12/16/stuff-for-steven-chu-to-worry-about/#comment-25014 DOE is Nowhere near as hard to manage as DOD. DOE's budget is very small compared to the Department of Defense [DOD]. Greenwire, Nancy Pelosi and those other people should be taking lessons from Professor Chu, not making remarks. DOE is Nowhere near as hard to manage as DOD.

DOE’s budget is very small compared to the Department of Defense [DOD].
Greenwire, Nancy Pelosi and those other people should be taking lessons from Professor Chu, not making remarks.

]]> By: Asteroid Miner http://climateprogress.org/2008/12/16/stuff-for-steven-chu-to-worry-about/#comment-25012 Asteroid Miner Thu, 18 Dec 2008 08:17:29 +0000 http://climateprogress.org/2008/12/16/stuff-for-steven-chu-to-worry-about/#comment-25012 I agree that nuclear fuel should not be wasted in Yucca Mountain. Nuclear fuel is renewable/recyclable Yucca Mountain contains an enormous supply of nuclear fuel that should not be wasted. We don't recycle nuclear fuel because spent fuel is valuable and people steal it. The place it went that it wasn't supposed to go to is Israel. This happened in a small town near Pittsburgh, PA circa 1970. A company called Numec was in the business of reprocessing nuclear fuel. I almost took a job there, designing a nuclear battery for a heart pacemaker. [The army offered me more money to work on nuclear weapons effects.] [A nuclear battery would have the advantage of lasting many times as long as any other battery, eliminating many surgeries to replace batteries.] Numec did NOT have a reactor. Numec "lost" a quantity of reactor grade uranium. It wound up in Israel. The Israelis have fueled both their nuclear power plants and their nuclear weapons by stealing nuclear "waste." See: http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/specialreports/buriedlegacy/s_87948.html The reprocessing of nuclear fuel in the US stopped for political reasons. France reprocesses nuclear fuel. My solution would be to reprocess the fuel at a Government Owned Government Operated [GOGO] facility. At a GOGO plant, bureaucracy and the multiplicity of ethnicity and religion would disable the transportation of uranium to Israel or to any unauthorized place. Nothing heavier than a secret would get out. I have no financial stake in the nuclear power industry, and I never have. Nobody is paying me to say this. See: http://www.hyperionpowergeneration.com/ Factory made nuclear reactors. I agree that nuclear fuel should not be wasted in Yucca Mountain. Nuclear fuel is renewable/recyclable

Yucca Mountain contains an enormous supply of nuclear fuel that should not be wasted. We don’t recycle nuclear fuel because spent fuel is valuable and people steal it. The place it went that it wasn’t supposed to go to is Israel. This happened in a small town near Pittsburgh, PA circa 1970. A company called Numec was in the business of reprocessing nuclear fuel. I almost took a job there, designing a nuclear battery for a heart pacemaker. [The army offered me more money to work on nuclear weapons effects.] [A nuclear battery would have the advantage of lasting many times as long as any other battery, eliminating many surgeries to replace batteries.] Numec did NOT have a reactor. Numec “lost” a quantity of reactor grade uranium. It wound up in Israel. The Israelis have fueled both their nuclear power plants and their nuclear weapons by stealing nuclear “waste.” See:
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/ x/ pittsburghtrib/ news/ specialreports/ buriedlegacy/ s_87948.html

The reprocessing of nuclear fuel in the US stopped for political reasons. France reprocesses nuclear fuel. My solution would be to reprocess the fuel at a Government Owned Government Operated [GOGO] facility. At a GOGO plant, bureaucracy and the multiplicity of ethnicity and religion would disable the transportation of uranium to Israel or to any unauthorized place. Nothing heavier than a secret would get out.

I have no financial stake in the nuclear power industry, and I never have. Nobody is paying me to say this. See:
http://www.hyperionpowergeneration.com/
Factory made nuclear reactors.

]]> By: David Walters http://climateprogress.org/2008/12/16/stuff-for-steven-chu-to-worry-about/#comment-24964 David Walters Wed, 17 Dec 2008 23:30:31 +0000 http://climateprogress.org/2008/12/16/stuff-for-steven-chu-to-worry-about/#comment-24964 So...the main thing you all are missing is that his pro-nuclear and believes nuclear can cut into coal emissions (obviously it can). I think this is a good thing as the budget for more advanced Gen IV nuclear plant technology will increase. David Wallters So…the main thing you all are missing is that his pro-nuclear and believes nuclear can cut into coal emissions (obviously it can). I think this is a good thing as the budget for more advanced Gen IV nuclear plant technology will increase.

David Wallters

]]> By: David Lewis http://climateprogress.org/2008/12/16/stuff-for-steven-chu-to-worry-about/#comment-24918 David Lewis Wed, 17 Dec 2008 16:23:51 +0000 http://climateprogress.org/2008/12/16/stuff-for-steven-chu-to-worry-about/#comment-24918 The phrase "the honeymoon is over" where I live in Canada has a meaning that the initial goodwill extended to a newly elected politician or in this case a new appointed high official is no longer being extended, because the inevitable feet of clay that everyone has have come into view. Mistakes have been made, or controversial actions have occurred, and suddenly the almost universal acclaim present when the person first appeared in the national consciousness turns more critical. When I read "the honeymoon is over" I thought, the guy has yet to do one thing, and its time to start dumping on him? At least let him do one thing. Otherwise, a good post. [<em>JR: ah, I did not phrase it in a sufficiently semihumorous fashion. I just meant, here it is, the guy doesn't have the job yet and the media is already explained to him how difficult it will be.</em>] The phrase “the honeymoon is over” where I live in Canada has a meaning that the initial goodwill extended to a newly elected politician or in this case a new appointed high official is no longer being extended, because the inevitable feet of clay that everyone has have come into view. Mistakes have been made, or controversial actions have occurred, and suddenly the almost universal acclaim present when the person first appeared in the national consciousness turns more critical.

When I read “the honeymoon is over” I thought, the guy has yet to do one thing, and its time to start dumping on him? At least let him do one thing. Otherwise, a good post.

[JR: ah, I did not phrase it in a sufficiently semihumorous fashion. I just meant, here it is, the guy doesn't have the job yet and the media is already explained to him how difficult it will be.]

]]> By: John Mashey http://climateprogress.org/2008/12/16/stuff-for-steven-chu-to-worry-about/#comment-24892 John Mashey Wed, 17 Dec 2008 05:56:56 +0000 http://climateprogress.org/2008/12/16/stuff-for-steven-chu-to-worry-about/#comment-24892 Very tough job, but it's nice to hear things like: "I can't imagine a better person for the job." - James Hansen, answering a question about Chu this evening after giving talk at our local town center. Very tough job, but it’s nice to hear things like:

“I can’t imagine a better person for the job.”

- James Hansen, answering a question about Chu this evening after giving talk at our local town center.

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