Instead of putting windmills close to their plants, the nuclear industry should fight to educate people on the principle of energy flux density.
(2) http://www.nuclearsafety.gc.ca/eng/mediacentre/ updates/2012/September-18-2012-Gentilly-or-not-to-be.cfm to set the record straight the Canadian Nuclear Security Commission (CNSC) wrote the short report on every falsehood in the documentary.
Both succumbing to, and encouraging the hysterical fear promoted by the environmentalist lobby surrounding the dangers of nuclear technology, it was arranged that dams were to be built in James Bay and Manicouagan region instead. Quebec then became a world leader in hydropower systems although the dream of having a nuclear powered Quebec was dropped and forgotten. It is important to note that the arguments for exiting nuclear, and replacing it with lower grade energy sources such as wind and solar are founded upon the unscientific fallacy that energy must only meet household electricity needs. But nuclear technology is not only about providing electricity. It has many other purposes. Carbon-14 is used to date archaeological findings; medical isotopes are used for either imaging and/or therapy. Recall the crisis of shortages which occurred when Ontarios Chalk River reactor (which produced more than 50% of the worlds medical isotope needs) had to be shutdown for over a year. Nuclear is a denser form of power that can be used to desalinate water, to procure new isotopes, and power heavy industries which could never exist under lower renewable energy sources.
and turned into an anti-human religion as the world economic system was transformed with the 1971 destruction of the Bretton Woods System into a clash of two mutually contradictory polarities. Short-term financial profits under a monetarist ideology were set up on one side and an anti-science population reduction ideology on the other. These assassinations, of the political and moral leadership of the 1960s, were meant to usher in a new paradigm of cultural pessimism. The Club of Rome and other think tanks have published books like The Population Bomb, Global 2000 and Limits to Growth to warn of impending doom if the worlds population is not culled rapidly. Today, in 2012, Prince Philip, the Queens consort, and his financiers acolytes still promote a maximum carrying capacity of the Earth of less then 2 billion people. The most important tool this oligarchy has, is our uneducated fear. This ignorant fear can lead not only to the denial of the necessary technologies for third world countries to develop, but also a destruction of those similar advanced technologies so necessary to our own survival. Since the shift into postindustrial consumerism that followed the counterculture revolt of 1968, western culture has almost entirely lost the idea of producing for the needs of the future, choosing instead the immoral path to hell founded on the baby boomer motto of live for today.
Some might ask the question What is the dose of radiation thats normal for a human being? There is no satisfying answer that anyone can give beyond a certain minimum and maximum bracket. Some argue, supporting their statement with LNT (4), that any exposure to radiation is harmful, regardless of what the doses may be, and therefore such people will develop a sophistry that will conclude that, half the dose of radiation will cause half the amount of cancers. These are clearly simplistic views that reflect a profound ignorance on the part of the interlocutors. Not only is a certain amount of radiation necessary for life, but low dose radiation within certain bandwidths has been proven to both extend longevity and combat cancer!
the power of tool-making? What is behind the bronze and iron ages,? What made them possible? It is important to get this question right, since these new tools were more valuable to our ancestors and to human civilization than any precious mineral or metal. What is the underlying principle that carried out these discoveries? Creativity is our human gift, and the concepts applied and enhanced every time a fundamental discovery is made is what we call the concept of energy flux density (5) , or otherwise the principle of fire developed at length by Lyndon LaRouche in many of his economic papers (6) for over 50 years. Energy flux density is the standard by which energy production must be studied and must define which form of energy among a given spectrum of choices is selected by society. Physical economics, the modern science founded by Gottfried Leibniz in the 17th century, was developed around the concept of steam-powered machines applied to enhance the work of mankind while alleviating the need for capital intensive human or animal labour. The per capita and per square kilometre output of energy is the valid measure to understand which energy production will be able to power cities of two thousand or two million citizens. The readers should look at a very good study on the subject for more extended data (7). Using this criteria we must come to recognize that nuclear fission power is an unbeatable option in todays world, as it is orders of magnitude higher in output than wind, solar and fossil fuel-powered plants. Modern society necessitates a shift towards an atomic renaissance.
A fuel bundle 500 mm long, 100 mm in diameter and weighing 22 kg could be carried in an overnight bag. When put in a CANDU reactor, it can produce as much energy as burning about 400 tons of coal or 2000 barrels of oil (8). wind and solar energy are not calculable under these metrics (9), but in terms of power potential, are orders of magnitude inferior. Quebecs energy makeup is hydro: 94.8 %, fossil fuel: 2.6 %, nuclear: 2.1 %, wind: 0.3 %, biomass/wastes: 0.2 %. That is to say, that 1 nuclear power plant (Gentilly-2) generates almost ten times more power then 393 windmills! How much land(10) is wasted on a technology that will only fuel a new dark age? Speeding up the Renaissance While this article is being written, Japan has announced that it is not only reopening closed nuclear plants (all but three of Japans 54 reactors were shut down in the wake of the Fukushima hysteria in 2011), but is also launching the construction of new ones. The nuclear renaissance is also on its way in Russia, China, Argentina and India as their governments have declared war on the short-term, anti-science thinking so popular in the West. Advances in new technologies such as thorium-based fission reactors, fourth generation systems and advances on thermonuclear fusion are being made by nations which possess an intention to assure stable sources of energy production, and durable growth for the coming centuries. Every society, in order to prosper, needs to increase its energy input/output without any absolute upper limit in order to survive durably. That is not an ideological statement. It is simply the science of development and a fact proven by the experience of human history. We, in the West, have to decide if we shall partake
(8) www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/articles/nuclear-power -plants (9) Ibid, Chalifoux. (10) According to General Electrics specifications, a 1,5 Mw windmill to achieve maximum output needs 81235 m2
in this Renaissance and help it ignite faster or attempt to throw sand on the embers. Already some promising projects are underway such as Belgiums Myrrha (11) , which could eliminate the term nuclear waste by transmuting the radioactive elements into new non radioactive material. Canadas CANDU reactor technology is already found in 6 other countries around the world. Canada was among the first to advance the science of the atom, and we need to save this legacy. The new isotope economy lies before us. Any questions? Lets do it !
Useful links
The Beauty of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle : www.larouchepac.com/node/14721 Fusion Torch Can Create New Raw Materials : www.larouchepac.com/node/14726
We Need to Expand Medical Isotope Production! : www.21stcenturysciencetech.com/ Articles_2010/Winter_2009/ Beauregard_Interview.pdf
(11) K. Vereycken : Le projet Myrrha : Lavenir de lhumanit passe par la transmutation des dchets nuclaires: Belgiums Myrrha reactor is a step towards reducing nuclear www.solidariteetprogres.org/spip.php? wastes to none. Instead of shutting down nuclear facilities, our page=forum&id_article=5909&id_forum=2935 nation should develop these technological skills and more.