X-Message-Number: 15060 From: Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 17:01:40 EST Subject: Gore and CO2, plutonium "disposal" >"Gore has been fighting to reduce CO2 a lot." No, Gore has been fighting to eliminate nuclear power which produces no greenhouse gases and replace it with coal. He may say that C02 is bad, but his actions would be more consistent with someone afraid of ice ages and determined to get all Earth's carbon back into the biosphere (which might be the right thing to do, we don't know.) Doesn't Sweden have some reactor designs which automatically shut off through heat expansion of the fuel rods if they overheat? I've read about that somewhere, but can't find the source. As far as plutonium goes, the Earth already disposed of 20,000 pounds of plutonium from a natural uranium reactor in Africa back in Age of Algae, so let's not panic. Plutonium is not a god or demon, it's just an element that will give off energy in a reactor if you fission it. Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=15060