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You can help us by using: www.smile.amazon.com. Amazon will DONATE 0.5% of your order to the USNEF Foundation. The SMILE link, button above, or the one on our DONATE page will take you directly. Amazon-Smile is the Amazon you know, same products, prices and service, and it will use your normal account processing.
Dear friends of USNEF I am retireing from my work with the USNEF website. It is built with the website design application DREAMWEAVER. I hope to find a few people who would be interested in continuing this project. I believe a couple people on our Advisory Board Page would be willing to help by providing content articles to this mission of grassroots education on nuclear to the public.
I talk a lot about nuclear power SMR technology, (small modular reactors)
modules that can be used individually, which can power about
25,000 homes or in larger plants of 12 units, which could power 300,000 homes.
I am curious that the industry has not begun developing small units such as
the sizes used in our nuclear submarines and aircraft carriers.
I know that those “units” are classified top secret and NOT available to the commercial market.
It seems today our nuclear industry should have the ability to design small reactors
“for” the commercial market. Such units could be used to provide independent energy
to hospitals, colleges, and other institutions, in which it may be
economic to “manage” their own energy environment.
Yup I am one of those gold guys who remembers the old slogan,
"inquiring minds want to know".
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Rebranding Nuclear
Rebranding Yucca Mountain as a PPP
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Advanced Nuclear-SMRs NUSCALE
Advanced Reactors
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We are refocusing on documenting factual analysis of data concerning nuclear technology, Yucca Mountain and the feasibility analysis of a commercially viable nuclear reprocessing energy . . . Recycling-nuclear-fuel- and the new (SMR) Small Modular Reactor technology. This is the type of information necessary in order to provide the grassroots public with the material they need for a “REBRANDING” knowledge of nuclear technology.
For 40+ years the public has been exposed to the media and political opposition the the Yucca Mountain Repository. Below you can overview the science, engineering, safety and management of the most science analyzed facility on our planet!
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This PDF is a vital detailed
accounting of the "World Energy Related Disasters" a MUST READ for your research.
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Peter Shaw, retired nuclear scientist from
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Gary J. Duarte, Director, US Nuclear Energy Foundation
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We got 8 of us together for our INL tour, 4 from Nevada and 4 from Idaho. I would like to thank them for joining one of our tours of the Idaho National Laboratory. Our efforts to Rebrand Nuclear Technology have grown beyond the Yucca Mountain Repository. For years, we have offered an OPEN INVITATION to Nevada legislators and the business stakeholder community to "tour" the learning experience at the INL facility. LINK TO THE PDF INVITATION below the photo on the right. |
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Our article in POWER MAGAZINE,
you can add your thoughts to the COMMENT section:
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Great article written by a friend who writes for Forbes: Disney World Could Have Gone Nuclear
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Another good article from Jim Conca
Any Green New Deal Is Dead Without Nuclear Power
The nuclear industry and its associations MUST
engage the grassroots public in order to rebuild public policy!
Visit our new Nuclear-News page under the ISSUES tab
If you need the best Dreamweaver templates: Goto: http://projectseven.com/
These links will jump to those web pages.
CNF 40th anniversary at ANS Meetings |
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Great Op-Ed, Retired Navy CDR Kirk Lippold The time is right to open Yucca Mountain for nuclear waste Review some of the "public comments" |
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Atoms for Peace Redux, Revisiting
President Eisenhower’s 1953 United Nations Speech
Why did we miss the boat?
What have we done by allowing politics and media to discredit nuclear energy technology over the past 50 years while saving millions of lives through radiation treatments? It is an embarrassment to our country whose ingenuity developed the nuclear age. President Eisenhower defined the nuclear age in 1953. His “Atoms for Peace” speech was delivered to the United Nations on December 8, 1953. Eisenhower spelled out the necessity of re-purposing existing nuclear weapons technology to peaceful ends “it must be humanity's goal to discover the way by which the miraculous inventiveness of man shall not be dedicated to his death, but consecrated to his life.”
Government and the industry worldwide must rebrand President Eisenhower’s Message “Atoms for Peace”. Clean nuclear has provided nearly 20% of our nations electrical power over the past 50 years. Plant upgrades have increased production output efficiency by 20% without adding new plants. Radiation technology has extended millions of lives through cancer treatments. We have to teach the grassroots that nuclear power is a renewable energy provider. In 1983, Dr. Cohen proposed that uranium is effectively inexhaustible, and should therefore be considered a renewable energy. The public seldom realize that our largest body of uranium exists in seawater, it is extractable and this research continues. Similar efforts continue with our research of reprocessing nuclear waste. The biggest task remains, How do we educate the grassroots public?
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Rebrand, Redirect, Renew
Our USNEF presentation to the Advanced Reactor Technical Summit III has helped us focus more on the detail and programs we can produce for nuclear technology worldwide. The current discussion is indicative that public grassroots outreach is of growing importance to public awareness. In order to advance this messaging, we hope to rebrand nuclear power by developing cooperative programs with the industry.
Why is engaging the public important? Congress and senate are educated by industry lobbyists, advisors, etc. What the industry and stakeholders should consider is, when Senators and Congressman return home for Constituent visits, an educated public on nuclear technology and many ISSUES may be just as important as the beltway influence of lobbyists and advisors. This way, our representatives get an opinion from the business community in D.C. and their constituent community at home. It is increasingly important that constituents engage our representatives. Community friendly is, "a place where people balance truth".
The world discussion of climate change, from all causes, must include nuclear power. Sixteen states continue to have restrictions against the construction of new nuclear plants. This arithmetic is not political, it is fact. We must realize that goals for clean air and clean rivers from pollution caused by coal fired plants CANNOT be met without developing new nuclear power. Our mission has to rebrand nuclear outreach advocacy.
It is very important to accept the nation's need for a national nuclear repository. We are spending the rest of this year pitching the NEED for grassroots education about nuclear technology. There is NO best place on earth for a repository, there has to be a reasonable place and this requires an educational outreach to the grassroots public.
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USNEF continues to deliver educational information on the
Yucca Mountain Nuclear Repository and advanced nuclear technology to many candidates.
It is pass the time for us to, REBRAND, REDIRECT and RENEW
our grassroots public about next generation nuclear technology, help us advance this mission.
The world discussion of a low carbon energy portfolio must include nuclear power. Nuclear energy is the largest contributor of America?s low-carbon energy footprint. Nuclear plants provide 63% of the zero-carbon electricity generation. Sixteen states continue to have restrictions against the construction of new nuclear plants. This arithmetic is not political, it is fact. We must realize that carbon emission reduction goals CANNOT be met without developing new nuclear power. Our mission has to rebrand nuclear outreach advocacy.
A REVELATION of TRUTH
Aside from our nations need for a national repository, our presentation at Oak Ridge identified a growing need for the industry to recognize and address a new need for grassroots public policy. For a decade the US Nuclear Energy Foundation has been an advocate of nuclear energy technology and completion of the Yucca Mountain study for America?s nuclear waste. Our mission has been three-fold: 1) Inform Nevada political and national stakeholders that our foundation supports completion of the Yucca Application Review Process. 2) Inform the nuclear industry, associations and business stakeholders that a community friendly process will come through grassroots education. 3) Inform our citizens on the facts of the Yucca science & engineering research. See our list below, A Decade of Outreach on nuclear energy advocacy.
Our mission is to establish truth, character and integrity in the materials we produce. Character and integrity must be at the forefront of every facet of government, agencies and business.
OUR OPINION STATEMENTS
There is no best place on earth to store nuclear waste. So, a resolution has to be accepted for 2nd, 3rd, or 4th best place and we need to move onward. A reassessment of what we have and a public educational program that will engage the public.
There is significant theoretical science which indicates that within 30 years 4th generation molten salt reactors will be capable of converting-burning all of our nuclear waste into safe carbon free power. The objection, that nuclear waste needs safe storage for thousands of years is soon to be eliminated. Regardless of this, the need for a repository continues to exist for a 6% remaining of burnt or reprocessed waste.
Our governmental agencies and National Laboratories are established and designed to serve America?s public. Political representatives are for the oversight of ?our agencies? NOT micro-management of them. We have to rebrand our grassroots communications from partisan politics to ?issues education? and separate science & engineering from bureaucratic micro management.
