Support Grows for Nuclear Power Plants

Rasmussen Reports ^ | August 16, 2005 | Rasmussen Reports

[AFPhys]

This is very good news

Also, a natural consequence of the oil price rise.

Also, a natural cause of the subsequent oil price fall soon.

[Tequila25]

Great. Bookmarking this.

[EagleUSA]

Also, a natural cause of the subsequent oil price fall soon.
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I hope you are right -- but we need to move forward agressively with nuke power -- the price per kilowatt hour cannot be touched with any other method that yields the amount of power one plant alone can generate...

[brivette]

Having been in the nuclear industry and seen first hand how a powerful minority can stop the best technology (small is beautiful gang) I welcome this development.

[DTogo]

YES!! More nukes and more renewables!

[RadioAstronomer]

:-)

I always wanted more nuke plants. I had the opportunity of sitting on the edge of a TRIGA bathtub uranium reactor and seeing the Cerenkov radiation with my own eyes as it lit up the core.

[Infantry Grunt 1968-69]

And how about a little drilling of the coasts of California and Florida!

[AnotherUnixGeek]

This is very good news

Absolutely, and about time. Even environmentalists have started to face the basic fact that fission is cleaner and safer than burning millions of tons of coal. As for the general public, I think most of the baby boom generation learned everything they know about fission nuclear reactors from some weird mix of the real events at Three Mile Island and that ridiculous "China Syndrome" movie.

[WideGlide]

Okay Americans...with attention spans about as long as a Road Runner cartoon...let's break ground on a whole bunch of new nuclear power plants that will be on line in about 10 years. That'll get the $3/gallon price down by Saturday. /sarc

[Non-Sequitur]

OK, narrow it down. Find out how many support nuclear power plants in their town or their county or their state. Let's check out the NIMBY factor.

[yobid]

I work in the power industry and can tell you that if we began designing a new nuke in the USA today, it most likely wouldn't go on line for 7-10 years later. This is due to the extreme amount of documentation and the permitting processes associated with this kind of work. Or to put it another way, government RED TAPE.

[Tatze]

I'll be more optimistic when support grows for more refineries and more drilling. Those are the two biggest reasons, that we have control over, for the high gas prices.

[liberty2004]

And how about a little drilling of the coasts of California and Florida!

exactly! I used to live in Florida. Most of my friends there, who are otherwise very conservative and pro capitalism were opposed to offshore drilling. I tried to say there is little chance of damage and that the best fishing is around the rigs. The just didn't get it. I asked them if the rigs were over the horizon and out of sight would that matter? Most just thought it was a bad idea. Now, that was about eight years ago, maybe their attitudes have changed. If it is good enough for LA and Texas, it is damn good enough for Florida and elsewhere. It's ridiculous the NIMBY crowd.

[kinghorse]

Patriot Act will be used to clear the environmental and state objections. Get ready to light up the Christmas Tree. Nuke Plants could be owned by big oil and leased to transmission companies.

[bagman]

Looking at the source (Rasmussen Reports), I thought this story was about WASh-1400 (joke for older nukes).

[kinghorse]

Patriot Act will be used because G@%#$T%$ this is a national security issue!

[liberty2004]

I'll be more optimistic when support grows for more refineries and more drilling.

correct, this is equally as important as building more Nuke plants and offshore drilling.

[TRY ONE]

Solar's alright but NUKES do it ALL night!

[kellynla]

A combination nuclear/desalination/electrical generating plant off the Cali coast gets my vote!

[oncebitten]

Given that we are in a state of war and energy is vital to the country's progress in said war: why can't President Bush declare a national emergency and ram through 50 nuke plants. Why does it seem we can't accomplish anything on the scale of the Hoover Dam or the Apollo project these days. Site a nuke plant in each state with dual purpose energy and hydrogen creation for transportation.