Comments on: Nuclear Warning: Ryan White interviews Dr. Helen Caldicot http://canadiandimension.com/articles/2006/02/26/378/ Tue, 07 Oct 2008 08:55:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: me http://canadiandimension.com/articles/2006/02/26/378/#comment-82601 me Wed, 07 Feb 2007 03:23:51 +0000 http://canadiandimension.com/articles/2006/02/26/378/#comment-82601 <p>I stumbled upon your remarks in a search on dr. caldicot. I know nothing of your Candu plant except what you said. What is the "nuclear" fissioning material you are using. How did you get only small amounts of plutonium etc... isotopes? Can you prove this and why aren't you even considering hydrogen turbine power production which only requires water and an electrolysis process to produce and only gives water as the end product?</p> <p>respectfully,</p> <p>pastaparadise@care2.com</p> I stumbled upon your remarks in a search on dr. caldicot. I know nothing of your Candu plant except what you said. What is the “nuclear” fissioning material you are using. How did you get only small amounts of plutonium etc… isotopes? Can you prove this and why aren’t you even considering hydrogen turbine power production which only requires water and an electrolysis process to produce and only gives water as the end product?

respectfully,

pastaparadise@care2.com

]]> By: H.F. Wolff http://canadiandimension.com/articles/2006/02/26/378/#comment-551 H.F. Wolff Sat, 04 Mar 2006 02:05:08 +0000 http://canadiandimension.com/articles/2006/02/26/378/#comment-551 <p>What are Dr. Caldicot's credentials, and who pays her salary and/or research?</p> <p>Her opinions on Canadian nuclear power are highly questionable, for example:</p> <p>1) How does the production of CANDU fuel produce "massive quantities of carbon dioxide"?</p> <p>2) How does the construction of nuclear power plants produce more carbon dioxide than the construction of any other major industrial plant?</p> <p>3) How are nuclear power plants "much more dangerous than coal-fired plants"? Considering that coal plants spew exhaust and radio-active particulate all their life? A CANDU plant has no exhaust; the odd spill of heavy water is a non-event since the heavy water came from the great lakes' water initially. (it is separated out from lake water).</p> <p>4) Radio-active spent fuel is, in reality, a VERY small problem that has sound engineering solutions. The quantities of radioactive material are very small compared to wastes from coal-fired plants. The plutonium may be separated from the spent fuel and burned-up in the CANDU plant. The remainder may be entombed in played-out salt or hard-rock mines. The radio-active isotopes with the very long half lives exist in very, very small quantities.</p> <p>Environmental contamination by permanent elements such as lead or mercury are PERMANENT unless physically removed, whereas the radioactivity eventually fades into the background radiation.</p> <p>For Ontario the Candu plant is the best option for BASE electric power supply.</p> <p>W.F. Wolff</p> What are Dr. Caldicot’s credentials, and who pays her salary and/or research?

Her opinions on Canadian nuclear power are highly questionable, for example:

1) How does the production of CANDU fuel produce “massive quantities of carbon dioxide”?

2) How does the construction of nuclear power plants produce more carbon dioxide than the construction of any other major industrial plant?

3) How are nuclear power plants “much more dangerous than coal-fired plants”? Considering that coal plants spew exhaust and radio-active particulate all their life? A CANDU plant has no exhaust; the odd spill of heavy water is a non-event since the heavy water came from the great lakes’ water initially. (it is separated out from lake water).

4) Radio-active spent fuel is, in reality, a VERY small problem that has sound engineering solutions. The quantities of radioactive material are very small compared to wastes from coal-fired plants. The plutonium may be separated from the spent fuel and burned-up in the CANDU plant. The remainder may be entombed in played-out salt or hard-rock mines. The radio-active isotopes with the very long half lives exist in very, very small quantities.

Environmental contamination by permanent elements such as lead or mercury are PERMANENT unless physically removed, whereas the radioactivity eventually fades into the background radiation.

For Ontario the Candu plant is the best option for BASE electric power supply.

W.F. Wolff

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