Nuclear Energy

There are alternative nuclear technology that are safe and can sustain for a very long time, see this company called http://www.terrapower.com they have the concept called travelling wave reactor which works by processing u238 instead of u235 which is used in conventional nuclear technology

Mining a radio active material is highly risky and unsafe .My opinion is yes it is a risky operation but we do have many techniques to make the mining most safe as possible, i think large amount of energy @ that risk is good .so what do you think about it .....should we start more radio active mining or to stop the existing mines in ???

TerraPower Nuclear Technology as discussed earlier has tremendous potential and is a fourth generation nuclear reactor technology.

Its a form of Breeder Reactor that not only produces fissile material from abundant fertile material (U238) but also burns it in the same cycle with out requiring any reprocessing.

Advantages:

1. Technology cannot be exploited to build nuclear weapons.
2. Far more abundant and readily available raw material.
3. Requires no human interference to manage the reactor.
4. Breeder bed reprocessing not required.

May be nuclear power will one day emerge as the panacea to this ailing energy hungry world!

US Geological Survey (USGS) says that India had 30% worlds Thorium reserves.This can be effectively utilized to produce the the energy.If this is implemented effectively then India can play a good role in generating energy from thorium and set an example to the rest of the world

Ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorium#cite_note-usgssumm-65

Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors (LFTR) - Safe & Cheap

LFTR was also invented by Alvin M. Weinberg, who pioneered Light Water Reactor (most common nuclear reactor) and has much better safety profile than any other civilian nuclear power technology. The greatest advantage with Thorium is that it is abundant, has better chemical and physical properties and yields more usable power than Uranium.

Mr. Weinberg as head of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA, demonstrated in the 1970s that LFTR is a much better technology for power generation while LWR is complicated and unsafe.

Nuclear power is the use of sustained nuclear fission to generate heat and electricity. All the countries in the worlds are racing to use nuclear energy to generate power including India. World did not forgot the Chernobyl Disaster in 1986. After many nuclear disasters post Chernobyl disaster world realized that we cannot prevent any nuclear accident to happen and the recent Tsunami which created a scare among the international. This accident resulted in stopping of nuclear reactors that were affected by the accident. After one year the reactor was again started but was welcomed with the protests across Japan stating that cost of lives is greater than cost of economy.

We need to understand the implication of nuclear accident in India which is most densely populated and it may prove too costly to handle any accident. Recent protest by the locals near Kalpakkam nuclear plant only shows the pain people living there are showing. Let’s support the movement and say no to nuclear energy and Government should consider more other options which are safer and cleaner.