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by Rulian » 01/12/06, 14:45

Hello Chuwee and thank you for your patience in answering our questions.

I would have two:

- is there an INDEPENDENT professional authority (national or European) of second opinion to certify the safety of power plants in France and ensure the transparency of the nuclear industry? The nuclear equivalent to hygiene services in catering and the food industry or to occupational safety inspectors. If this organization exists, what is it and above all does it have the possibility of cracking down immediately or even having a site closed temporarily for non-compliance with security procedures?

- Where is research on the destruction of radioactive waste (by transmutation I believe)?

Thank you in advance.
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by Chuwee » 01/12/06, 16:32

It gives me pleasure to answer your questions and in addition I learn lots of things :D

I am not trying to show that nuclear is not dangerous because there are still risks but that it is not more dangerous than anything else (in installations in state, we agree).
I also draw your attention to the manipulation of figures by some.
At first glance, what do you think is the biggest "70 m3" or "70000 liters", "1MBq" or "1000000 Bq". : Lol:
Basically, keep a critical eye regardless of the source of the documents ...




To come back to the questions:

Let's say that the organizations are all independent (even if they don't seem to : Lol: ).
Basically, there is the ICRP (NGO) which only makes recommendations.
Then from a European point of view, it is EURATOM which takes up the recommendations of the IPRC and has them declined under French law.
This is for the regulatory part.
To comply with these laws, there is the ASN and their "technical branch", the DGSNR. They are the ones who have the power to shut down a power plant or any other BNI (momentarily or permanently).
They are also the ones who give the authorization to restart a section after stopping, etc.
I don't know if the IAEA has a say ...

http://www.asn.gouv.fr/

As the address indicates, it is government.
However, we have already dealt with them, they really do not joke ... It seems to me that they even plumb the DGSNR for non-compliance with certain texts ...

I invite you to consult their site from time to time in order to be aware of the various incidents that have occurred in BNIs (this is not advertising, eh : Lol: ).

You can also consult their annual report
http://www.asn.gouv.fr/sections/rubriqu ... -nucleaire
As well as their review and their files
http://www.asn.gouv.fr/sections/rubriqu ... blications

It is quite instructive.


Regarding waste, I did not even know about transmutation but apparently, it must not be easy to set up, especially at the level of isotope sorting ...
It seems to me that a German has managed to reduce the radioactive period by lowering the temperature to around 0 ° K, I do not know where I read it :?
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by saveplanet » 01/12/06, 17:05

Thank you for these links which provide objective data.
Nuclear is or will be one of the primary challenges in our future and having informed data on the subject is necessary to form a fair opinion, without too many preconceptions.
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by Woodcutter » 01/12/06, 21:12

"A stake in our future ..."
Well, a fairly limited time issue in its current form then, from what we can read on the fissile material reserves ...

Do you have an opinion on that, Chewbacca?
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by Woodcutter » 01/12/06, 22:55

After reading this news from Techno-Science, I ask the question to the specialists: isn't that a bit of what the Z-machine does?
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by Chuwee » 02/12/06, 10:21

Distribution of reserves in the world (for deposits that have been found):

Australia 24%
Kazakhstan 17%
Canada 13%
South Africa 9%
Russia 6%
Namibia 6%
USA 4%
Niger 3%
Uzbekistan 3%

Most of the world's uranium is currently produced in Canada, followed by Australia and Niger. It is a relatively abundant resource but quite difficult to exploit.

In my opinion, that leaves us the margin but not 200/300 years even counting on renewable energies. I also think that the governments are shitting on each other because more and more countries will have access to nuclear power and I do not think that the production of fuel will manage "legally" to keep up with the demand without counting the political problems, etc. That's why I think they are looking more and more towards fusion ...


As for LMJ, I am not a specialist but I would say that it strongly resembles it. At first glance, it's just the way photons are created that looks different ...
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by zac » 02/12/06, 11:37

Chuwee wrote:Distribution of reserves in the world (for deposits that have been found):

Australia 24%
Kazakhstan 17%
Canada 13%
South Africa 9%
Russia 6%
Namibia 6%
USA 4%
Niger 3%
Uzbekistan 3%

Most of the world's uranium is currently produced in Canada, followed by Australia and Niger. It is a relatively abundant resource but quite difficult to exploit.

In my opinion, that leaves us room but not 200/300 years even counting on renewable energies. J


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in your accounts you do not include the areas prospected, but not exploited.
In morbihan for example (the cancer triangle prospected for 30 years and kept "under the elbow").
You can, in Brittany, detect these areas without a frying pan by a fine analysis of the safety statistics.

So in my opinion there is stock, but as usual, we plunder the others first and then if the shortage arrives we type in its stock

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by Chuwee » 02/12/06, 12:24

From what I heard, uranium in France is not easily (or at least economically) exploitable.

U is present in any granite massif and we can easily detect it by measuring radon (which is one of its "sons").
There are places where it is more profitable to operate on the surface with cheap labor. As usual, we're headed for the cheapest ...
As for morbihan, with an average of 3g of U per tonne of soil, it will turn into big gruyere : Lol:
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by zac » 02/12/06, 13:49

Chuwee wrote:As for morbihan, with an average of 3g of U per tonne of soil, it will turn into big gruyere : Lol:


Hello

It's an average, if you take the triangle Plumelec, Guéhéno, St jean brévelay; it is much more and in addition it is flush : Mrgreen:

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by Cuicui » 02/12/06, 14:17

Cuicui wrote:I will try to contact JP Petit to give him an opportunity to explain himself.

His email address does not work : Cry:
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