I always shake my head in wonderment when I see nuke power referred to as ‘clean energy’. Aside from Fukushima and Chernobyl, which still provide radiation to the environment today, US nuke plants are licensed to ‘burp’ radioactive gas in controlled amounts into the environment. There used to be a ‘scandalous map’ showing rosettes of cancer around nuke plants when plotted on a map of the US, as regions immediately surrounding the plants were said to experience higher rates of cancer. But it’s clean cancer, you see?
Now By Cracky! This is a Green Energy project I approve of.
Now we need Musk to bring out an nuclear powered electric car. The battery problem would then be solved. Solved with a Sweet Pea sized pill.
Building these types of nuclear reactors today is the same as building launch platforms based on the Space Shuttle technology rather than on SpaceX technology.
We should be the world leaders in Thorium reactors, scalable pebble bed reactors, and so on.
Ping
There are only about 240 coal fired plants in the US now.
In my recollection that is a dramatic change already.
I would rather see nuclear energy, so the US could sever ties with foreign energy suppliers.
I would also look to the actual resurgence of steam powered coal fired locomotives, in response to the present diesel-electric locomotives.
Really be interesting to know what criteria they employ when hiring people to run and maintain that beast.
Do they go with the most qualified, experienced, best educated and trained or is there some sort of quota that mandates that there must be a certain percentage of some sex or race?
Where is the little commie darling anyway? Shouldn't she be out in front protesting her own country of Sweden for going nuke?
I find it amazing that a number of countries or going back to nuke energy. Hmmm, I wonder why that is. Could it be the amazing reliability of solar and wind? /s.
Two videos for “dummies” for consideration:
Nuke energy...abundant, clean, and safe:
https://youtu.be/X5OJRxZoMI8
How dangerous is nuke waste?:
https://youtu.be/Mw-S9UgrfNY
Vogtle Unit 3 is fully commercial, having passed numerous functional and operational tests. Unit 4 at the same plant is a few months away from the same status.
Expensive, but much more reliable than solar and wind power.
Only 500,000 homes? One would think with all the new energy saving appliances that the Biden’s have mandated, it should be at least 1 million homes. /S