Black Nuclear Energy

There should be no racial connotations to black versus white energy. Coal and oil are black-colored and sunlight is white light. Remember, though, that our Sun is nuclear powered, fusing hydrogen to produce heat. But this is white nuclear energy: fusion. Black nuclear energy is fission, from the breakdown of large atoms, like uranium and plutonium.

The Atomic bomb is a fission device, while the Hydrogen bomb is a fusion explosion. The half lives of the products of fission are as long as how long homo sapiens have existed, on the order of hundreds of thousands of years. This means that after that period, half the radioactivity is still there. Tritium is produced from fusion, and the half life is about a dozen years.

This then leads to fission power versus fusion power. I'll elaborate tomorrow.-

The price of petroleum is just below $126/barrel. Interestingly enough, the price of uranium six months ago was more than $90/pound. Today? $65/pound.