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"Greg Locock" <greglocock@yahoo.com.au> wrote in message 
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>> "Greg Locock" <greglocock@yahoo.com.au> wrote in message
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>>>> "David Moss" <q0320811@mail.connect.usq.edu.au> wrote in message
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>>>>> In article <en4jub$rl8$1@news-02.connect.com.au>,
>>>>> dontemailme@all.com writes...
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>>>>>> So tell me what's wrong with this form of energy as an alternative
>>>>>> to coal?
>>>>>
>>>>> Isn't geothermal just another kind of nuclear energy?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Well yes, but one is nuclear fission and the other is not.
>>>
>>>
>>> Nope. Both are fission. Like it or not.
>>>
>>> There's nothing really wrong with geothermal. If it is cost effectve,
>>> add it to the palette of alternatives. If not, not. But, conventional
>>> nuclear should also be on that pallette, as should small amounts of
>>> wind power, and
>>> PV, once that becomes cost effective.
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>>
>>> Greg Locock
>>
>> Greg,
>> You are only partly correct - a minor proportion of Uranium decays by
>> spontaneous fission.
>> But the majority of heat produced by high-heat-production granites is
>> produced by
>> other methods of decay  -  alpha decay
>
> which is usually fission (splitting apart)
>
> , beta decay
>
> which is usually fission

No it is not - go and look up a physics text and you'll learn the 
difference.
Fission is the splitting of the nucleus into two roughly equal halves.
Alpha and beta decay do not fall into this category.
cheers
Bill