What is a green reactor? It is a gaseous reactor that uses a uranium gas as fuel. It is beyond the laws of nature for this type of reactor to ever undergo a nuclear meltdown. A gaseous, green reactor will also produce its own uranium fuel.

A green reactor will produce electricity at an overall cost of less than 3 cents per kilowatt-hour including amortization. The national average for electrical energy to the consumer is approximately 10 cents per kilowatt-hour.

Green reactors do not use water. Water reactors should have never been permitted as a nuclear reactor design. Whenever a liquid is used as a moderator or coolant in a nuclear reactor, there is a lower margin of safety.

Today, tritium, which is a radioactive isotope hydrogen and found in water, is leaking into the sewer system from a pressurized water reactor near New York City. Nuclear and water don't mix.

A green reactor has no equal in terms of nuclear safety.

If a conventional nuclear power plant hiccups, there is a possibility of a nuclear meltdown as a result of a loss of coolant accident. If a green reactor hiccups, it passes gas into a contained, controlled environment. Please remember that the containment systems at Three Mile Island worked. In a green reactor, gaseous fuel would easily be recovered and reused from the containment system whereas a reactor using solid fuel will remain in the failed core for several years after a severe accident. Again, water should not be used as a reactor moderator or coolant.

The most important lesson learned from Chernobyl is the reactor physics must be such that the core has a negative reactivity temperature coefficient. This will naturally shutdown the nuclear reaction if core temperature rises above a specified temperature.

A green reactor is absolutely remarkable in radiological terms. Gases produced by fission remain in a green reactor to assist with energy conversion. Liquid and solid radioactive waste are extracted routinely during normal operations. These wastes will be glassified for disposal or packaged for use upon removal. Because there is no nuclear spent fuel contained in the extracted waste, there are fewer long-term storage problems associated with a green reactor. Handling solid spent fuel will always be more hazardous than handling gaseous fuel.

Also, a green reactor is the least-likely contributor to nuclear proliferation or terrorism. Let the scoundrels try to put gas in their pockets.

Economically, green reactors will produce electrical energy very inexpensively. As a result, they will pay for a first-rate healthcare program, fund public education, and still lower the electric costs to the consumer. This is a measure of true prosperity to all.

Green reactors may also offer a pathway to a controlled fusion process.

The single, most fundamental, lesson learned from Three Mile Island is not to trust big business with nuclear power.

It is time that our state governments should assume the responsibility of producing electricity from nuclear energy. Energy is the life-blood of our society, our economy, and our government. It is our duty to provide for the common defense and the betterment of our world. Secure, sustainable energy is a paramount to our way of life.