An Update on the Afghan Dental Project
By Barbara Pampalone
After the attack on El Queda in Afghanistan, The Dentist Dr. James Rolfe
of the Santa Barbara area was inspired to help the widows and orphans
there. He felt our country needed to give them something besides
bullets, so he set out to make his dream come true.
The UNA-USA San Fernando Valley Chapter worked, about 5 years ago, with
the Mid San Fernando Valley Rotary to raise $6,000.00 to buy a container
and other expenses for the Afghan Dental Relief Project. Dr. James
Rolfe came to present a program later to our UNA group telling of the
progress that had been made with that project. And, about 2 years
ago we again worked with Rotary to present an "Art of Afghanistan" program
where Dr. Rolfe again spoke and $3,500.00 was raised. . . . more
No More Nuclear Power
Nuclear Power Uses More Energy
Than It Produces
By Dorothy K. Boberg
How
much fossil fuel energy does it take to produce and operate one 1000
megawatt nuclear reactor; to mine and mill the uranium, neutralize the
tailings, convert uranium to U hexafluoride, enrich uranium from natural
U238 to U235, fabricate the fuel elements, produce the products to construct
the reactor, build the reactor infrastructure, decommission and dismantle
the reactor, clean up the site, dispose of the radioactive waste, build
the vehicles, transport the high and medium level waste to long term
storage and guard the waste for 240,000 years?
Helen Caldicott, J. W. Storm van Leeuwen and Philip Smith are three
of few scientists who have analyzed the balance between the amount of
fossil fuel energy needed to produce the nuclear energy fuel cycle for
one 1000 megawatt nuclear reactor. It may be impossible for most laymen
to consider a petrojoule of energy (1 million billion joules) and the
several hundreds of petrojoules of fossil fuels needed for the nuclear
fuel cycle, but it is not impossible to accept the obvious concept that
it takes more fossil fuel expenditures for one reactor than the reactor
can produce in it's lifetime. . . more
After the attack on El Queda in Afghanistan, The Dentist Dr. James Rolfe
of the Santa Barbara area was inspired to help the widows and orphans
there. He felt our country needed to give them something besides
bullets, so he set out to make his dream come true. 
How
much fossil fuel energy does it take to produce and operate one 1000
megawatt nuclear reactor; to mine and mill the uranium, neutralize the
tailings, convert uranium to U hexafluoride, enrich uranium from natural
U238 to U235, fabricate the fuel elements, produce the products to construct
the reactor, build the reactor infrastructure, decommission and dismantle
the reactor, clean up the site, dispose of the radioactive waste, build
the vehicles, transport the high and medium level waste to long term
storage and guard the waste for 240,000 years?