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Donald E. Lutz, PE*

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"Mythology distracts us everywhere. For the great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie: contrived and dishonest. But the myth: persistent, persuasive, unrealistic. "You must not be afraid to follow the truth no matter where it is found."

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Welcome to my energy web site. In this site I reveal the truth about energy that concerns the future of our country and the world. Also I discuss the religions, and environmentalists, who strongly espouse energy policies that I think would return us to the third world living conditions.

The blue underlined links on the left column forms a table of contents (TOC) of this Web site as well as an easy way to go to any Page by simply clicking on the link. Be sure and read about the Fast Breeder Reactor and Fuel Cycles. This Web site is free, I do not ask for or take any money

Nuclear power employing Fast Breeder Reactors offers the world an infinite supply of energy. But Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter stopped its progress as payback to the environmentalists who voted for them. Carter also prevented recycle of fuel coming out of commercial reactors.

President Clinton actually pledged to remove all funding from nuclear power research during his nationally televised inaugural address. And he kept his promise. Clinton ordered the Experimental Breeder Reactor power plant (EBR II) shutdown. And he ordered that EBR II be destroyed..

As payoff to the environmentalists, President Bill Clinton shutdown Argonne National Lab's Experimental Breeder Reactor (EBR II) in Idaho and poisoned the reactor assembly with a carboniferous material so it can never be started again. This is one of the most egregious acts ever performed by a mentally sick president.

Moreover, if we could reprocess our present stockpiles of depleted uranium currently stored at the sites of our 104 commercial nuclear reactors and also the depleted Uranium Hexafloride (DUF6) from the bomb program and apply these in Fast Breeder Reactors it could produce all of our Nations electricity for many years without the need for additional uranium mining or CO₂ production.

Nuclear Power is the answer to our energy problem.

Nuclear power offers an infinite supply of energy.
Energy produced from nuclear power plants is the most economical of all sources.
Nuclear power has no pollutants
Nuclear power fission product wastes are minuscule and can be safely stored.
Nuclear power is safe as demonstrated by the records of 104 commercial plants each operated over 30 years.

Writing about Hoyle's book, Sir Alan Cottrell, who was once the chief scientific adviser to the British government, says:

It (Hoyle's book) is about energy: about the alarming prospect that oil will soon run out and not be replaced by anything else. It shows that—contrary to an influential belief—we do not have time, and there is no practical alternative to nuclear energy, and that Western decision makers have been frightened into immobility in their nuclear energy policies by a well-orchestrated campaign which has marched under an 'environmentalist' banner, but yet has a clearly identifiable political basis.

There is one energy system that few know about. That is the IFR Fast Breeder Nuclear Reactor Plant that can supply energy until the sun burns out. It does so by converting almost all of the uranium and plutonium to energy. Nuclear plans today convert about1% of the uranium to energy. Mor on fhat later in the pages about nuclear power.

U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Republican Conference, chaired a hearing of the conference recently to receive testimony on the importance of building 100 new nuclear plants in the United States over the next 20 years. Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.) co-chaired the hearing. “Today, there is a huge energy gap between the renewable electricity we would like to have and the reliable, low-cost electricity we must have,” Alexander said. “Conservation and nuclear power are the only real alternatives we have today to produce enough low-cost, reliable, clean electricity to clean the air, deal with climate the challenge and keep good jobs from going overseas.

Russia to Help China Build Fast-Breeder Nuclear Reactors

Foreign Affairs News Keywords: CHINA, RUSSIA
Source: Inside China Today
Published: Jun 2, 2000 Author: AFP
Posted on 06/03/2000 01:15:01 PDT by Sawdring

BEIJING, Jun 2, 2000 -- (Agence France Presse) Russia is to help China construct a fast-breeder reactor as part of the nuclear cooperation between the two countries, Russian diplomatic sources said in Beijing on Thursday.

Russian Atomic Energy Minister Yevgeny Adamov discussed the construction of a 60-megawatt reactor during this week’s visit to Beijing, said the sources.

My comment: Russia and China recognize that the Fast Breeder Nuclear Reactor is the world's future energy source. But in his book : BEYOND FOSSIL FUELS, THE ROAD MAP TO ENERGY INDEPENDENCE ENERGY BY 2040

JOSEPH SHUSTER STATES THE FOLLOWING:

Nuclear energy from fast neutron reactors resolves every energy issue facing the world today—depletion of oil, pollution from fossil fuels, and even the prospect of global warming from greenhouse gases.

Moreover, according to Dr. George Stanford of Argonne National Laboratory , with enough Fast Reactor Nuclear electric power plants deployed, no more uranium will needto be mined, milled, or enriched for centuries to come.

China signs up Russian fast reactors
www.world-nuclear-news.org
15 October 2009
A high-level agreement has been signed for Russia to start pre-project and design works for two commercial 800 MWe fast neutron reactors in China, while a deal for more conventional reactors draws closer.

The Significance of the Russian SVBR-100 Modular Nuclear Reactor

Many analysts expect that societies in the post peak oil period will go through a "power down" scenario that will force their economies to be reconstituted using the primitive energy systems of the eighteenth century. However, not all analysts share this expectation. Since the accident at Chernobyl, an important group of Russian scientists have taken it upon themselves to rewrite the energy future of technically advanced civilizations.

The Russians are now the most prolific nuclear power supplier in the world. It has reach my desk that the Russians are now supplying China with eight Fast Breeder BN800 nuclear power plants. This is amazing. Clinton destroyed our Fast Breeder reactor power plant program in the US when we were in the lead. Our Fast Breeder program is now dead thanks to Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter.

None of our politicians have any technical background or knowledge about power plants and the US cannot advance the issue. The DOE has no programs to advance the Fast Breeder systems and the US industry will not do it on their own. This is a dark time in our history and the communistic countries will be ahead of us for the foreseeable future.

Yes the environmentalists have won that one due to the lack of knowledge of US population. The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) is no help to us either. They should be a proponent of nuclear power.

To All; Did you all know this?

UK plans construction of 10 nuclear plants

DATE: 10 Nov 2009

Prime Minister Gordon Brown targets 2018 for the first plant to come online as Britain joins the world push to generate more

Russia is forging their swords into plow shares.

India is Going Nuclear

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh plans to build 40,000 megawatts of nuclear capacity by 2020, equivalent to a third of India's total power generation, to meet soaring energy needs and cut reliance on coal-fired plants. India won the right Sept. 6 to buy atomic technology and fuel from the 45-nation Nuclear Suppliers Group and expects the U.S. Congress to clear the deal this month.

General Electric, based in Fairfield, Connecticut, Areva, Toshiba Corp.'s Westinghouse and Rosatom may each win contracts valued at more than $3.5 billion to supply two reactors that can generate more than 1,000 megawatts apiece, Jain said. The orders will be part of a $40 billion reactor-building program.

Good news this week. August 13, 2007- News release

South Korea, US to Cooperate on Sodium-Cooled Nuclear Reactor, and Fuel Reprocessing

Since I fought the Korean war it is a delight to me to hear that the South Koreans will develop the Fast Breeder Reactor and fuel cycle and sell them world wide. The US environmentalists will not be able to destroy the South Korean Fast Breeder Reactor program as they did ours in the United States. When I left South Korean at the end of the war in September 1953, people in Pusan were living in card board boxes. It is amazing what they have achieved since then.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Future energy development, providing for the world's future energy needs, currently faces great challenges. These include an increasing world population, demands for higher standards of living, a need for less pollution, a need to avert global warming, and a possible end to fossil fuels. Without energy, the world's entire industrialized infrastructure would collapse;

agriculture, transportation, waste collection, information technology, communications and much of the prerequisites that a developed nation takes for granted. A shortage of the energy needed to sustain this infrastructure could lead to a Malthusian catastrophe

China and India are at the forefront of most new nuclear development.

China and the United States on Saturday December 16, 2006 signed an agreement that paves the way for Westinghouse Electric Co. to build four civilian nuclear reactors in China, a multibillion dollar coup for U.S. business over French and Russian competitors.

Nuclear Power in France

France has 59 nuclear reactors operated by Electricite de France (EdF) with total capacity of over 63 GWe, supplying over 426 billion kWh per year of electricity, 78% of the total generated there. In 2005 French electricity generation was 549 billion kWh net and consumption 482 billion kWh - 7700 kWh per person.

French AREVA has arrived in the United States. Key figures for AREVA in the United States are:

Almost 1.7 billion dollars in sales revenue in 2006 (tripled in 3 years).
More than 5,000 employees.
42 sites, both industrial and commercial, in 20 states.

As a result of the 1974 decision, France now claims a substantial level of energy independence and almost the lowest cost electricity in Europe. Over 90% of its electricity is nuclear or hydro.

China and India are at the forefront of most new nuclear development.

China says it is planning to quadruple the volume of electricity generated at its nuclear plants over the 2004 level by 2020. India envisages hiking its volume of power generated at nuclear plants seven fold. China says it is planning to quadruple the volume of electricity generated at its nuclear plants over the 2004 level by 2020. India envisages hiking its volume of power generated at nuclear plants seven fold.

Epilogue

As you read this Web Site you will see that nuclear power is the cleanest, safest, and often the cheapest way of generating reliable electricity. And it is inevitable if we wish to survive.

If we do not get underway soon with nuclear plants, we will have to import them from China in a decade or so. Following is an excerpt from a China news article.

In July 2004, Ye Qizhen, chief designer of the second phase of the Qinshan nuclear project, and a member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, said that Chinese engineers could "easily develop" a 1,000-MW-class reactor. China Business Weekly reported in February 2005 that China plans to design and build a 1,000-MW nuclear power plant around the year 2012.

Finally, Professor Per Peterson chairman of the department of nuclear engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, points out the following:

"We will face major environmental challenges during the coming century, particularly in reducing carbon dioxide emissions from our use of fossil fuels. Many people do not realize that by deploying nuclear power at large scale, France was able to close its last coal mine in April, 2004. The same potential exists in the United States."

A personal note:

One of my other endeavors is financial math.. I wrote a book entitled "The Mathematics of Personal Finance." The mathematics in this book is not more advanced than ninth grade algebra. If you would like to get a book it is $20.95. It is published by iUniverse and can be bought through iUniverse.com and Barnes & Noble.com, Boarders.com, and Amazon.com , etc. or any other book sellers. It does not appear on book shelves. It is printed on demand and mailed to the readers who ask for it.

It is printed on demand and mailed to the readers who ask for it.

College students who do get the book think that is great and wished their instructors would get it also. It was a hobby of mine since I had to learn this subject to pass the State engineering license exam. Also my youngest son has an MBA

However, if one reads this book they will never fall prey to the cheating and obfuscation going on today in the financial world that has many losing their homes, buying worthless insurance policies, and making poor investments. etc. You will swim with the sharks and survive. Your will be more astute about finance than most bankers.