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The Atomic Ocean Liner
[Default] Thus spake George Leppla :
Kurt Ullman wrote: In article , Charles wrote: In article , frijoli wrote: and 3 mile island Three Mile island and also Chernobyl, don't forget that catastrophe. Both are a good education for the public to keep in mind about nuclear power. There is also the issue of disposing of nuclear waste. And nuclear power plants are not cheap to build. I am not opposed to nuclear power plants forever but as of 2010 I still don't trust any private company, public entity or government to operate nuclear power plants safely. Yet except for those two there have been no problems. Even Japan gets most of its power from nukes. France gets almost 80% of its electricity from nukes and is the largest exporter of power. With the climate change hooha running through Congress, it is likely that Nuke plants will get relatively cheaper to build than (especially) coal plants. TMI worked well despite the human errors with very little released. Chernobyl was of a kind not used elsewhere in the world and even then, it was the only of its kind to go bad. Good point about Japan and France. I'm not thrilled about nuclear power, but anything has to be better than the economic drain we have from buying oil from countries who really don't like us. Sooner or later, we have to get away from burning fossil fuels. Nuclear, solar, wind, thermal.... there is an answer out there somewhere and I hope we find it because we WANT to... before we HAVE to. George, STNP was floating a proposal a couple of years ago to add another reactor, at a cost of $1-1.5 billion to supply 100,000 household equivalents. To build that much capacity in a wind farm would currently run about $8 billion and solar $?? billion (where ?? is too huge to contemplate). Yes, wind and solar will come down in the next 15 to 20 years, but STNP would be ready in 5-6. -- - dillon I am not invalid The more I drink, the less I think. The less I think, the better I feel. The better I feel, the more I drink. And so goes the circle of life. |
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