Yes we need more than one or two plants. France gets an enormous amount of their energy from nuclear. The libs tell us we should be more like the Europeans, except when it comes to nuclear energy.
Don’t expect to see any nuclear power plants built. Obama doesn’t want them. He will get political credit for funding one, but knows it will never get built because it will never maneuver the Dept of Energy, EPA, and a myriad of other federal agencies. So he gets the political credit, but doesn’t ultimately offend his far left base.
Dead on. The permitting process will take 10 years at best. Then the contruction job will take 3 times as long and cost nowhere near the budget. Then when the operaters try to bring it online, the hordes of lawyers will decend. This is just another kick the can issue for the dims.
Its like every other thing he does. Gives a go ahead and leaves the roadblocks in place.
Money for high speed rail? He offers a tiny fraction of the cost, never mind eminent domain and environmental fights that will cost more than the fantasy choo choo.
Private industry partnership with NASA? Its just fine if they don’t mind forever being limited to taxi driving and freight hauling to government facilities under government contract. The outer space treaty makes sure that’s all they’ll ever do.
Nuke plants? Never mind turning his back on Yucca mountain, EPA control and even new agencies to study waste disposal.
Not one of them will happen.
If obama is sincere about expanding nuclear power, then Yucca Flats will be approved to go into operation.
If not, it won't.
And while unions may get expensive contracts to build huge expensive facilities, nuclear fuel will not be delivered to those facilities because the EPA, other enviro bureaucrats and anti nuke lobbies will stonewall over fuel storage and waste disposal among other issues. It will be win win for obama. He gets to posture like a reasonable concerned president, and award his union buddies contracts and his other lobbyists mega bucks for “enviro studies” - all to build empty shells he knows will never go on line.
Watch for it.