Comparing nuclear and wind power, so far so good.

[His Divine Shadow]

If you have a teleheating grid from before then you can hook it up. If you have one. Lots of cities in scandinavia does.

[Patrick Degan]

What I noticed now is that the increase of uranium prices I mentioned is that Prof. Bernard Cohen estimated maybe a quadruple increase in fuel cost if we extracted uranium from seawater. A metod that would allow us to extract uranium for 5 billion years.

Even better: a new fuel reprocessing technique called pyroprocessing would allow for far more efficent recycling of spent fuel and even present waste materials to allow for up to 95% usable yield and indefinite extention of present uranium supplies —to the point where uranium mining itself could be allowed to lapse for centuries at a stretch. The technique was touched upon as part of an article on nuclear power in the December 2005 issue of Scientific American.

Could anyone point me to a good source for this? If I had a good source I could use this argument in the debate pages on the local paper.

The story link is here, but you have to be a subscriber for SciAm's Digital Edition. The title of the piece is "Smarter Use of Nuclear Waste" by William H. Hannum, Gerald E. Marsh and George S. Stanford and is a fascinating read about the possibilities for pyroprocessing as well as the Advanced Liquid Metal Reactor.

This is the brief on pyroprocessng from the Argonne National Laboratory, the developers of the technique.