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The purpose of this page is to explore the regulatory possibilities for converting coal burning power plants to thorium in non-nuclear ready developing countries.

The United Nations' International Atomic Energy Agency,
the global nuclear watchdog, should watch over this project.
 There are 1,200 power plants in 66 different countries - many very poor - that need the same fix to end 30% of ALL Global Warming and the IAEA can legally do it.

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http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/cfr/waisidx_08/10cfr810_08.html  Rules about assisting foreign entities.

Now that we have a dirt-cheap nuclear boiler, repowering the world's coal burning power plants is something the U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency should supervise.  About the IAEA:  IAEA and the UN family .pdf 

1.  The role of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
2.  The role the International Atomic Energy Agency already plays in the world.

Obtaining the enriched uranium necessary to start the reactor

 

 

IPCC
Climate Change 

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

http://www.ipcc.ch/  General IPCC public home page

The IPCC has announced they will release their 5th Climate Change assessment in 2014.  Why such a long wait?
http://cdm.unfccc.int/  CDM Home

http://www.epa.gov/  U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

The IPCC has three working groups:

http://ipcc-wg1.ucar.edu/index.html  Working Group I: The Physical Science Basis of Climate Change
http://www.ipcc-wg2.org/index.html  Working Group II: Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability
http://www.ipcc-wg3.de/  Working Group III: Mitigation of Climate Change and Task Force on Greenhouse Inventories
http://www.ipcc-wg3.de/organisation/technical-support-unit/staff/tsu-staff  Working Group III support staff


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NOTE: This unsponsored educational web site is the pro bono effort of a professional engineer who has spent 40+ years working in and around power plant engineering, industrial strength electricity, and multi-building energy management systems.  As part of his journey to energy's final frontier, this web page is intended to document the author's attempt to select and collect - from documents released to the public decades ago - the bits, pieces, and prices necessary to construct the coal2nuclear conversion boiler the author thinks would do a great job of ending up to 30% of ALL Global Warming carbon dioxide.

I am neither a scientist nor a nuclear engineer and this is not a scientific paper.  This is power plant talk by a professional Control Systems engineer, not professional engineering advice. 

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Waste - Sub-Seabed Nuclear Waste Disposal in Stable Clay Formations .pdf

Waste - Sub-Seabed Waste Solution - 96.10.pdf

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Thoughts by Mel Visser, author of "Cold, Clear, and Deadly" and "The Climate Trap.":

Physically handled thru energy independence starting with nuke.

Policy handled by a Sustainability Agency as part of the departments of State and Commerce. Goal: DO instead of DON'T and get it done in a way that keeps our jobs. The EPA will price us out of the carbon market while Indonesia etc. burn coal to do our jobs and send the goods back.

Here's something I wrote for another audience:

Think about “buying local and organic.” When we go out of our way to do the best we can, are we driving a car made in Asia filled with gasoline made from Arabian oil refined in the Caribbean to return home with local veggies and line-caught salmon full of globally sourced pesticides to be cooked in a Chinese pot on a Mexican stove fired with gas from the Arctic or Nigeria? What are the environmental implications of our economically flat globe and our post-manufacturing society?

 

IAEA Chief Calls For World-Wide Safety Review Of Reactors.
The AP (6/21) reports, "The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency on Tuesday urged a worldwide safety review to prevent new nuclear disasters, but acknowledged that since the IAEA lacks enforcing authority, any improvements are only effective if countries apply them." IAEA chief Yukiya Amano outlined a five point plan to strengthen nuclear safety. The plan calls for bolstering IAEA safety standards, establishing regular safety reviews at all of the world's reactors, and increasing IAEA input in nuclear disaster response efforts. Nevertheless, Amano acknowledged that, "Even the best safety standards are useless unless they are actually implemented."

The Chicago Tribune (6/21) adds Amano said that nuclear reactor "stress tests" at the national level should be followed by IAEA expert reviews to check on a plant's operational safety, and emergency preparedness systems.

The Wall Street Journal (6/21, Crawford) adds Deputy Secretary of Energy Daniel Poneman, chief US envoy to the IAEA, responded to Amano's comments by saying that the US prefers nuclear oversight to be conducted by national regulators. He also said that the US did not want to have to rely on the IAEA for information on nuclear accidents and that multiple sources of information are necessary to fully analyze incidents.

 

 

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