"Mythology distracts us everywhere. For the great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie: contrived and dishonest. But the myth: persistent,  persuasive, unrealistic.  "You must not be afraid to follow the truth no matter where it is found."

Thomas Jefferson

Welcome to my energy web site. In this site I reveal the truth about energy that concerns the future of our country and the world. Also I discuss the religions, and  environmentalists,  who strongly espouse energy policies that I think would return us to the third world living conditions.

The blue underlined links on the left column forms a table of contents (TOC) of this Web site as well as an easy way to go to any Page by simply clicking on the link. Be sure and read about the Fast Breeder Reactor and Fuel Cycles. This Web site is free, I do not ask for or take any money

Nuclear Power is the answer to our energy problem.

• Nuclear power offers an infinite supply of energy.

• Energy produced from  nuclear power plants is the most economical of all sources.

• Nuclear power has no pollutants

• Nuclear power fission product wastes are minuscule and can be safely stored.

• Nuclear power is safe as demonstrated by the records of 104 commercial plants each operated over 30 years.

Nuclear power employing Fast Breeder Reactors offers the world an infinite supply of energy. But Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter  stopped its progress as payback to the environmentalists who voted for them. Carter also prevented recycle of fuel coming out of commercial reactors.

President Clinton actually pledged to remove all funding from nuclear power research during his nationally televised inaugural address. And he kept his promise. Clinton ordered the Experimental Breeder Reactor power plant (EBR II) shutdown. And he ordered that EBR II be destroyed..

As payoff to the environmentalists, President Bill Clinton  shutdown Argonne National Lab's  Experimental Breeder Reactor (EBR II)  in Idaho and  poisoned the reactor assembly with a carboniferous material so it can never be started again. This is one of the most egregious acts  ever performed by a mentally sick president.

Obama is also beholden to he environmentalists and cannot restore the Fast Breeder  (FIR)  project.  If Obama  said he would restore Fast Breeders, he would not be elected dog catcher by the environmentalists. 

Nearly 100% of the uranium that is introduced into the existing commercial nuclear power plant fuel cycles could be used in Fast Breeder  Reactors to produce an infinite amount of energy.  

Moreover, if we could reprocess our present stockpiles of depleted uranium currently stored at the sites of our 104 commercial nuclear reactors and  also the depleted Uranium Hexafloride (DUF6)  from the bomb program and  apply these  in Fast Breeder Reactors it could produce all of our Nations electricity for many years without the need for additional uranium mining or CO₂ production.

It is amazing that we now have to bury and throw away the nuclear fuel discharged from commercial reactors and spend billions of dollars to purchase natural gas, oil,  and coal to generate electrical energy. We should conserve these fossil fuels for other uses.

Facts from Professor Cohen (University of Pittsburgh) and others

 How long will nuclear energy last? These facts come from a 1983 article by Bernard Cohen. 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

Breeder reactors use uranium more than 100 times as efficiently as the current light water reactors. Hence much more expensive uranium can be used. At $1,000 per pound, uranium would contribute only 0.03 cents per kWh, i.e. less than one percent of the cost of electricity. At that price, the fuel cost would correspond to gasoline priced at half a cent per gallon.

We thus conclude that all the world’s energy requirements for the remaining 5×109 yr of existence of life on Earth could be provided by breeder reactors without the cost of electricity rising by as much as 1% due to fuel costs.

See Professor Cohn's web site. Click on the below web site,

 See Professor Cohen's Facts 

An other Web site I encourage  my readers to visit is Robert 'Moen's Site    See Robert Moen's site 

This  site is very well done and full of important energy related information.  Another  site to visit is the: :

 Institute for Energy  Research

The blue underlined links on the left column forms a table of contents (TOC) of this Web site as well as an easy way to go to any Page by simply clicking on the link. Be sure and read about the Fast Breeder Reactor and Fuel Cycles. This Web site is free, I do not ask for or take any money

Thus is about the worst decision Obama has ever made considering the many.

Oil drilling in BRAZIL

When we were building the Clinch River Fast Breeder Nuclear power plant Jimmy Carter was able to dump us for a few million dollars over run. Now we are going to spend 2 billion dollars that we will probably never see any results from. . George Soros will probably get richer with this use of and our money.

A book that I suggest you read is:

PERSCRIPTION FOR THE PLANET by Tom Blees

Subtitled: The Painless Remedy for our Energy & Environment Crises

This book is one of the best I have read which explains this condition. 

U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Republican Conference, chaired a hearing of the conference recently to receive testimony on the importance of building 100 new nuclear plants in the United States over the next 20 years. Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.) co-chaired the hearing. “Today, there is a huge energy gap between the renewable electricity we would like to have and the reliable, low-cost electricity we must have,” Alexander said. “Conservation and nuclear power are the only real alternatives we have today to produce enough low-cost, reliable, clean electricity to clean the air, deal with climate the challenge and keep good jobs from going overseas.  

In  his book :

 BEYOND FOSSIL FUELS, THE ROAD MAP TO ENERGY INDEPENDENCE ENERGY BY 2040

JOSEPH SHUSTER STATES THE FOLLOWING:

Moreover, according to Dr. George Stanford of Argonne National Laboratory , with enough Fast Reactor Nuclear electric power plants deployed, no more uranium will need to be mined, milled, or enriched for  centuries to come.

China signs up Russian fast reactors
www.world-nuclear-news.org
15 October 2009
A high-level agreement has been signed for Russia to start pre-project and design works for two commercial 800 MWe fast neutron reactors in China, while a deal for more conventional reactors draws closer.

The Significance of the Russian SVBR-100 Modular Nuclear Reactor

Many analysts expect that societies in the post peak oil period will go through a "power down" scenario that will force their economies to be reconstituted using the primitive energy systems of the eighteenth century. However, not all analysts share this expectation. Since the accident at Chernobyl, an important group of Russian scientists has taken it upon themselves to rewrite the energy future of technically advanced civilizations.

Those scientists have chosen to turn away from the dangerous sodium cooled breeder reactor technology, and have turned instead to their own "home grown" "heavy metal" alternative. At present, the Russians are forging ahead to develop and build two different types of uranium fueled "heavy metal" reactors that have most of the favorable characteristics that engineers and policy makers would want in a nuclear reactor. Those reactors have the potential to usher in a new era of almost unlimited low cost electric power.

The Russians are now the most prolific nuclear power supplier in the world. It has reach my desk that the Russians are now supplying China  with eight Fast Breeder BN800 nuclear power plants.  This is amazing. Clinton destroyed our Fast Breeder reactor power plant program in the US when we were in the lead.  Our Fast Breeder program is now dead thanks to Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter. 

None of our politicians have any technical background or knowledge about power plants and the US cannot advance the issue.  The DOE has no programs to advance the Fast Breeder  systems  and the US industry will not do it on their own. This is a dark  time in our history and the communistic countries will be ahead of us for the foreseeable future.

 Yes the environmentalists  have won that one due to the lack of knowledge of US population. The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) is no help to us either. They should be a proponent of nuclear power.

To All;  Did you all know this?

UK plans construction of 10 nuclear plants

DATE: 10 Nov 2009

 Prime Minister Gordon Brown targets 2018 for the first plant to come online as Britain joins the world push to generate more energy while reducing carbon emissions

Good News: It Looks like the US might get the nuclear power plant revolution under way.

Words taken from a paper written by Jim Muckerheide   and Ted Rockwell  of the Radiation, Science and Health organization.

"Renewable" and "sustainable " energy means: energy sources that are available indefinitely-- cannot be depleted. Our fossil fuel supplies, coal, natural gas, and oil are not sustainable. As we use them, they are not being renewable at a sufficient rate to be sustainable.

With renewable seawater supplies of uranium and large terrestrial sources of thorium plus fuel recycling and breeder reactors, more nuclear fuel will be created than we consume each year, for millions of years. 

That's even better than merely "renewable!".

 Republican energy bill will call for 100 new reactors
House Republicans planned to introduce an energy bill today that calls for 100 reactors to be built in the next 20 years as well as drilling onshore, offshore and in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. "This is an alternative that takes us in the direction of energy independence and a clean environment without the national energy tax being offered by the Democrats," said Rep. Mike Pence, R-Ind. 

Russia plans to close the nuclear fuel cycle and develop new commercial Fast Breeder Nuclear Reactor power  plants.

 We need to go over to new technological standards.  I have in mind the closed fuel cycle and the development of a commercial fast neutron reactor. This should be the objective of a specialized program called Nuclear Energy Technologies of a New Generation. Preparation of it should finish by November of this year," Putin told a conference in Elektrostal on the future of the country's nuclear industry.

 The program would involve, among other things, a set of projects to close the nuclear fuel cycle, which includes processing irradiated nuclear fuel removed from nuclear power plants that remain in operation and from nuclear submarines, and organizing the manufacture of mixed oxide (MOX) fuel to be used in fast neutron reactors.

 MOX fuel is a blend of oxides of plutonium and natural, reprocessed or depleted uranium. Fast neutron reactors would enable the nuclear industry to produce practically no waste.

   Russian has many years of experience  with fast Breeder Reactors. Construction has started on Beloyarsk-4 which is the first BN-800, a new, more powerful (880 MWe) FBR, which is actually the same overall size as BN-600.   It has improved features including fuel flexibility - U+Pu nitride, MOX, or metal, and with breeding ratio up to 1.3.  It has much enhanced safety and improved economy - operating cost is expected to be only 15% more than VVER.  It is capable of burning up to 2 tonnes of plutonium per year from dismantled weapons and will test the recycling of minor actinides in the fuel.  Further BN-800 units are planned.

  My comments: Russia is going to the Fast Breeder Reactor and the closed fuel cycle that has practically no waste. They are now 50 years ahead of the US, thanks to Bill Clinton,  Jimmy Carter, and the  environmentalists in the US.

   Russia is forging their swords into plow shares.

India is Going Nuclear

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh plans to build 40,000 megawatts of nuclear capacity by 2020, equivalent to a third of India's total power generation, to meet soaring energy needs and cut reliance on coal-fired plants. India won the right Sept. 6 to buy atomic technology and fuel from the 45-nation Nuclear Suppliers Group and expects the U.S. Congress to clear the deal this month.

India needs to add to the 3 percent of electricity that comes from Russian-designed reactors. The country has 17 reactors in six states that produce 4,120 megawatts of power, according to Nuclear Power's Web site.

General Electric, based in Fairfield, Connecticut, Areva, Toshiba Corp.'s Westinghouse and Rosatom may each win contracts valued at more than $3.5 billion to supply two reactors that can generate more than 1,000 megawatts apiece, Jain said. The orders will be part of a $40 billion reactor-building program.

 The nation's monopoly atomic-power generator plans to build ``nuclear parks'' housing reactors capable of generating as much as 8,000 megawatts at a single location.

India signed a civilian nuclear agreement with Russia in January last year. Russia is helping India build two 1,000- megawatt light-water reactors at the Kudankulam nuclear power station in the southern state of Tamil Nadu.

India plans to buy the AP1000 series of reactors from Monroeville, Pennsylvania-based Westinghouse, the `ABWR' series from General Electric, the Russian VVR 1,000 units and Areva's serial designs for the 1,000 megawatt plants,

General Electric, the world's biggest maker of energy- generation equipment, said Aug. 25 that it may lose contracts in India to French, Russian and Japanese rivals if the U.S. Congress doesn't ratify the deal soon after the agreement wins approval from the suppliers group.

The agreement will be presented to Congress for approval in the next few days.

My Comments: This business could add many jobs, and a significant amount of income for companies in the United States.  It is imperative that Congress approve the agreement with India.

If Congress does not approve this agreement, Russia, Japan, and France will be recipients of this business and the United States will get none.

The United Kingdom (UK) of England has studied  the world's energy problems and arrived at the following conclusion:

Forward from Gordon Brown, the Prime Minster of England: Nuclear power is a tried and tested technology. It has provided the UK with secure supplies of safe, low-carbon electricity for half a century. New nuclear power stations will be better designed and more efficient than those they will replace. More than ever before, nuclear power has a key role to play as part of the UK’s energy mix. I am confident that nuclear power can and will make a real contribution to meeting our commitments to limit damaging climate.

Nuclear Power:
A significant reduction in greenhouse gas emissions seems unlikely given our continued heavy reliance on fossil fuel consumption. Even UK environmentalist James Lovelock, who posited the Gaia theory that the Earth operates as a giant, self-regulating super-organism, now sees nuclear energy as key to our planet’s future health. Lovelock says the first world behaves like an addicted smoker, distracted by short-term benefits and ignorant of long-term risk. “Civilization is in imminent danger,” he warns, “and has to use nuclear—the one safe, available energy source—or suffer the pain soon to be inflicted by our outraged planet.”

Yet environmental activists, notably Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth, continue to lobby against clean nuclear energy, and in favor of the band-aid Kyoto Treaty. We can agree renewable energies, such as wind, geothermal and hydro are part of the solution. But nuclear energy is the only non-greenhouse gas-emitting power source that can effectively replace fossil fuels and satisfy global demand.