To: Innovative
Agreed. Why we aren’t doing this is insanity.
6 posted on
11/01/2013 1:56:38 PM PDT by
rlmorel
("A nation, despicable by its weakness, forfeits even the privilege of being neutral." A. Hamilton)
To: rlmorel
“Agreed. Why we aren’t doing this is insanity.”
We are not building new uranium plants. No way would a utility venture into a new plant design.
To: rlmorel
Why we AREN’T doing it went back to the early 1950s. The old Atomic Energy Commission was experimenting with both Thorium and Uranium/Plutonium reactors, and when DOD found they could NOT make a nuclear weapon with Thorium chose the Uranium/Plutonium cycle as a “dual-use” technology. . .
30 posted on
11/01/2013 2:22:41 PM PDT by
Salgak
(http://catalogoftehburningstoopid.blogspot.com 100% all-natural snark !)
To: rlmorel
Why we aren’t doing this is insanity.
Glad you asked.
65 posted on
11/01/2013 11:06:37 PM PDT by
itsahoot
(It is not so much that history repeats, but that human nature does not change.)
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