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kristopher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-20-10 06:01 PM Original message |
Worry about 2 Ontario reactors cost overruns (already expected to cost $26B Canadian) |
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bananas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-20-10 06:21 PM Response to Original message |
1. Gee, who would unrec this? |
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OKIsItJustMe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-20-10 06:25 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. There are a few topics which seem to garner knee-jerk unrecs... |
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Tesha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-20-10 09:03 PM Response to Reply #2 |
6. It's up to +7 now. (NT) |
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bananas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-20-10 10:15 PM Response to Reply #6 |
7. Now it's down to +6 |
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bananas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-21-10 01:32 AM Response to Reply #6 |
9. Down to +5. (nt) |
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bananas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-21-10 12:55 PM Response to Reply #6 |
15. Down to +4, which pushes it off the Greatest page. |
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bananas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-21-10 03:55 PM Response to Reply #6 |
22. Back up to +6 |
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OKIsItJustMe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-21-10 03:57 PM Response to Reply #22 |
23. Sell! |
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Zoeisright (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-20-10 06:40 PM Response to Reply #1 |
3. Nuke nuts can't stand hearing how much these plants cost. |
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Tesha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-21-10 09:24 AM Response to Reply #3 |
10. Just keep saying: "Too cheap to meter! Too cheap to meter! Cheep, cheep, cheep!"... |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-20-10 06:40 PM Response to Original message |
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Canuckistanian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-20-10 08:02 PM Response to Original message |
5. Yeah, we're still getting the surcharges on our Hydro bill |
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OnlinePoker (837 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-21-10 09:32 AM Response to Reply #5 |
12. When I lived in Ottawa in '96-'03 |
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Statistical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-20-10 11:19 PM Response to Original message |
8. CANDU is a failed design. |
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Tesha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-21-10 09:29 AM Response to Reply #8 |
11. The advantage of CANDU is that it burns un-enriched fuel. |
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Statistical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-21-10 10:53 AM Response to Reply #11 |
13. The bad news is fuel costs make up about 5% of a reactors lifetime costs. |
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kristopher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-21-10 11:11 AM Response to Reply #13 |
14. Another attempt at a circle jerk... |
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jpak (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-21-10 01:06 PM Response to Reply #13 |
16. Does that cover all the costs associated with spent fuel disposal? |
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Statistical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-21-10 02:10 PM Response to Reply #16 |
17. that argument would only apply if the CANDU didn't produce waste... |
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jpak (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-21-10 02:20 PM Response to Reply #17 |
18. No, the cost of disposing spent fuel from US light water reactors is >$100 billion and counting |
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Statistical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-21-10 02:23 PM Response to Reply #18 |
19. Utilities paid disposal cost. |
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jpak (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-21-10 03:00 PM Response to Reply #19 |
21. Wrong again - the Nuclear Fuel Fund will generate a maximum of $28 billion over the lives of current |
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FBaggins (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-22-10 02:03 PM Response to Reply #21 |
28. You need to add those two numbers together (and extrapolate) |
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Tesha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-21-10 05:47 PM Response to Reply #18 |
25. That's why I would question 5% as the "fuel" costs of reactors that burn Enriched Uranium. |
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Tesha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-21-10 05:43 PM Response to Reply #13 |
24. Actually, PU239 *ISN'T* effective for the casual bomb builder. |
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kristopher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-21-10 09:44 PM Response to Reply #24 |
26. The casual nuclear weapons builder? |
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kristopher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-22-10 01:49 PM Response to Reply #11 |
27. The main issue we face is how to move the world from carbon fuels. |
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Tesha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-22-10 03:37 PM Response to Reply #27 |
29. I don't see any fission reactor as acceptable. |
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joshcryer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-22-10 03:47 PM Response to Reply #27 |
30. The main issue is how to move the world from carbon fuels quickly. |
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bhikkhu (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-21-10 02:32 PM Response to Original message |
20. Oh well, its only money |
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Nihil (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-23-10 05:46 AM Response to Reply #20 |
31. Ding! |
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