The Viability of Germany’s Energiewende: Mark Jacobson Answers 3 Questions

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21. WRONG, as per usual

kristopher states:
Finally, your oft repeated quote from Dr. Till re proliferation is not true. Making weapons is more difficult, but the claim that is is "impossible" has been refuted by far too many qualified critics for it to stand.

kristopher,

What you fail again to understand, is that although there are many that claim to have expertise in what can / can not be done in the area of nuclear weapons; that in the USA, there is truly only one source of "experts" in nuclear weapon design, and that is the scientists at Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories. NO WHERE else can such work be done or even discussed.

The question as to the Dr. Till's claim was authenticated by scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in a report referenced by Senators Simon and Kempthorne in their rebuttal to a New York Times editorial:

http://www.nytimes.com/1994/07/05/opinion/l-new-reactor-solves-plutonium-problem-586307.html

You are mistaken in suggesting that the reactor produces bomb-grade plutonium: it never separates plutonium; the fuel goes into the reactor in a metal alloy form that contains highly radioactive actinides. A recent Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory study indicates that fuel from this reactor is more proliferation-resistant than spent commercial fuel, which also contains plutonium.

PamW