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"It was found that an average of 33% and a maximum of 47% of yearly-averaged wind power from interconnected farms can be used as reliable, baseload electric power. Equally significant, interconnecting multiple wind farms to a common point, then connecting that point to a far-away city can allow the long-distance portion of transmission capacity to be reduced, for example, by 20% with only a 1.6% loss of energy."

"It was found that an average of 33% and a maximum of 47% of yearly averaged wind power from interconnected farms can be used as reliable, baseload electric power. Equally significant, interconnecting multiple wind farms to a common point and then connecting that point to a far-away city can allow the long-distance portion of transmission capacity to be reduced, for example, by 20% with only a 1.6% loss of energy."

Cristina L. Archer and Mark Z. Jacobson. "Supplying Baseload Power and Reducing Transmission Requirements by Interconnecting Wind Farms." Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, v.46 (November 2007) pages 1701-1717. On the web at http://www.stanford.edu/group/efmh/winds/aj07_jamc.pdf.

"For example, one gram (approximately the weight of a quarter of a teaspoon of salt) of tritium in tritiated water will contaminate almost 500 billion gallons of water up to the current drinking water limit of 20,000 picocuries per liter set by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)."

"For example, one gram (approximately the weight of a quarter of a teaspoon of salt) of tritium in tritiated water will contaminate almost 500 billion liters of water up to the current drinking water limit of 20,000 picocuries per liter set by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)."

14. Keynes' ideas are set forth in Proposals for an International Clearing Union, Draft of the British government's proposal sent to U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau, Jr. by the British War Cabinet, Official Committee on the Post-War External Economic Problems and Anglo-American Co-operation, August 28, 1942. On the Web at http://e-server.e.u-tokyo.ac.jp/Exhibition/keynes/pdf/62.pdf.

14. Keynes' ideas are set forth in Proposals for an International Clearing Union, Draft of the British government's proposal sent to U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau, Jr. by the British War Cabinet, Official Committee on the Post-War External Economic Problems and Anglo-American Co-operation, August 28, 1942. On the Web at http://www.lib.e.u-tokyo.ac.jp/keynes_harrod/pdf/62.pdf.

"While PBMRs would reduce the amount of waste volume per unit of power production, there would still be an enormous amount of radioactive waste that would result, posing the familiar problem of what to do with long-lived radioactive waste."

"While the amount of radioactivity present in the reactor at any time per unit of power produced would be less in PBMRs than in LWRs, the volume of spent fuel would be considerably greater, posing the familiar problem of what to do with long-lived radioactive waste."

They [chemical reactions resulting from radiolysis] also frequently result in the generation of hydrogen gas due to the radiolysis of water and of organic compounds, as well as of other toxic and flammable compounds.

Radiolysis of waste and organic compounds frequently results in the generation of hydrogen gas, as well as of other toxic and flammable compounds.

"The NUMEC source term estimate is far lower than that estimated by the AEC in 1966 for the same period. The AEC estimated emissions for the period up to October 1965 to be 17,000 grams of U-235, or about 1 curie (14,000 grams of uranium-235 due to routine emissions and 3,000 grams due to the February 9, 1963 fire in the uranium vault). This is more than three times larger than the NUMEC estimate. Moreover, the AEC stated that this stack emission estimate to October 31, 1965 “is considered to be a minimum because Division of Compliance inspectors have noted that stack gas surveys were not performed on stacks at times when loss rates might be expected to be abnormally high. There does not appear to be any way to estimate the extent (if any) to which the estimated 110 d/m/M3 average loss rate may be lower than actual.”"

"The NUMEC source term estimate is far lower than that estimated by the AEC in 1966 for the same period. The AEC estimated emissions for the period up to October 1965 to be 14,000 grams of uranium-235, or about 0.8 curies, which is about 2.6 times larger than the NUMEC estimate. In addition, there was an estimated loss of 3,000 grams of uranium-235 due to a fire in the uranium vault on February 9, 1963, which may conservatively be assumed to have been released to the air. Moreover, the AEC stated that its own stack emission estimate to October 31, 1965 “is considered to be a minimum because Division of Compliance inspectors have noted that stack gas surveys were not performed on stacks at times when loss rates might be expected to be abnormally high. There does not appear to be any way to estimate the extent (if any) to which the estimated 110 d/m/M3 average loss rate may be lower than actual."