We need just three billion dollars to produce a Integrated Fast Reactor

Are we really going to give up the technological advantage that an IFR would give us to countries like China, Russia, France and India? All these countries believe in this next generation reactor technology so strongly that they are currently building or planning to build IFR reactors.

Did you know IFR reactor can be run on our old fuel rods and Depleted Uranium? We have enough of both these potential fuel sources to supply the US with all its electrical needs for 500 years without mining one additional gram of Uranium.

Did you know an IFR will also be able to produce enough heat on a consistent basses to make Boron? Boron is a carbon free energy source that could power newly designed cars. The expected cost of Boron produced by the use of heat exchange with an IFR is to be equivalent to paying .50$ for a gallon gasoline. Also Boron is much safer as a fuel source than that of gasoline.

Did you know an IFR could basically eliminate all proliferation issues?

Did you know an IFR solves our current long term nuclear waste issues while producing an easy to handle ceramic by product that will be less radioactive than Uranium in 400 years? In 700 almost all of the original byproducts radioactivity will be gone.

I can go on and on describing the advantages that IFR technology can offer this nation but I do not think this comment section would allow that many words. I will leave you with this fact. All of the above can be done at cost of 1,500$ per kilowatt/hour? There is no other energy source on the market that can even come close to this cost.

God Bless Americas Nuclear Renaissance,

Jfarmer9

Note this comment by Jim Rodgers the CEO of Duke Energy:

“In an operation of a nuclear plant, there [are] .64 jobs per megawatt. The wind business–and we have a very large wind business–is .3 jobs per megawatt. In the solar business–and we’re installing solar panels–it’s about .1. But the difference in the jobs is quite different, because if you’re wiping off a solar panel, it’s sort of a minimum wage type of job, [with] much higher compensation for nuclear engineers and nuclear operators. If our goal is to rebuild the middle class, nuclear plays a key role there, particularly if coal is out of the equation.”

How are we being environmentally friendly when we purchase wind mills and solar panels from China? China electrical grid is run from power produced from the dirtiest coal plants in the world. They don’t even scrub their coal before they burn it. That means Solar Panels and Wind Mills = CO2 + heavy metal particulates + everyone’s favorite Mercury.

Viva the Nuclear Renaissance,

Jfarmer9