integral fast reactors – Green Social Thought https://www.greensocialthought.org Produce less. Distribute it fairly. Create a greener world for all. Thu, 22 Feb 2024 04:47:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.greensocialthought.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/cropped-ggef_logo_small-1-32x32.png integral fast reactors – Green Social Thought https://www.greensocialthought.org 32 32 James Hansen’s Generation IV nuclear advocacy: a deconstruction of nuclear fallacies and fantasies https://www.greensocialthought.org/biodiversity-biodevastation/james-hansens-generation-iv-nuclear-advocacy-deconstruction-nuclear-fallacies-and-fantasies/ Sun, 10 Dec 2017 17:13:15 +0000 https://gst.riz-om.network/reprint/james-hansens-generation-iv-nuclear-advocacy-deconstruction-nuclear-fallacies-and-fantasies/ by Jim Green

Dr James Hansen is rightly admired for his scientific and political work drawing attention to climate change. His advocacy of nuclear power ‒ and in particular novel Generation IV nuclear concepts ‒ deserves serious scrutiny.   In a nutshell, Dr Hansen (among others) claims that some Generation IV reactors are a triple threat: they can convert weapons-usable (fissile) material and long-lived nuclear waste into low-carbon electricity. Let's take the weapons and waste issues in turn.]]> by Jim Green

Dr James Hansen is rightly admired for his scientific and political work drawing attention to climate change. His advocacy of nuclear power ‒ and in particular novel Generation IV nuclear concepts ‒ deserves serious scrutiny.

 

In a nutshell, Dr Hansen (among others) claims that some Generation IV reactors are a triple threat: they can convert weapons-usable (fissile) material and long-lived nuclear waste into low-carbon electricity. Let's take the weapons and waste issues in turn.

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