[rellic]

The problem in one word, is “Karen”.
We let them vote, they destroy innovation.
We get stuck with Democrats.

[SeekAndFind]

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All that is required is for enough citizens to speak up and support investigating the truth about nuclear energy.  From the very beginning of the nuclear age, it has been known that the ultimate reactor was as simple as a tank of high-melting temperature material salted with nuclear fuel.

This material would generate heat simply by virtue of its composition, and electricity would be produced by passing it through a heat exchanger.  This design can produce tens of times more energy than conventional plants.  It requires nothing more than a tank, a pump, and a heat exchanger, and any disruption will result in the material solidifying and encapsulating the nuclear material.

This design principle has been studied many times in the form of molten salt and thorium fluoride reactors, but they were never built because the powers that be deliberately chose not to build reactors based on the best engineering principles.  They instead chose a design that was inherently and critically flawed, presumably to prevent the development of cheap nuclear energy.  The fact that the Fukushima reactors failed because of something as foreseeable as an earthquake should make it clear to everyone that conventional reactor designs are ludicrous.

If Americans truly want affordable, failsafe, green energy, they owe it to themselves to investigate these claims.  Nuclear science is well understood and available to anyone willing to investigate.  A perfect reactor can be as simple as a tank of nuclear-salted lead, and all it takes is a willingness to look at the engineering fundamentals behind such a design.

[G Larry]

"Clean Energy" is NOT their goal.

Population Control and destroying Capitalism is their goal.

[qaz123]

It’s not the political will that is holding us back.

It’s the fact that the Left CANNOT co-opt nuclear energy for their own benefit. Nuclear plants have been around for quite some time and they’re built by giant utilities, controlled by the government.

Sure there’s
money to be made somewhere, but building a putting a nuke plant online can’t force the people to pay for their buddies windmills and solar panels.

This renewable energy sh*t isn’t any different than the APA. Folks forced to buy a product from the folks that supported the Democrats and the Left. This Renewable energy crap is no different.

Buy these windmills and solar panels. Oh wow, I didn’t know my biggest donor owns controlling shares in the company that makes them. Whadda ya know? Anywho.....write that check.

EVERYTHING the Left and Dems do involves some type of mechanism for large scale kickbacks and corruption.

Look at all the money USAID and the State Dept has pissed away in Afghanistan. You think those billions went to the Afghani’s?

[zeestephen]

ping - nuclear energy

[buckalfa]

My dear departed father did his life’s work as a fire prevention and safety engineer in the nuclear energy industry. One of his favorite sayings was that while the protocols governing the industry promoted near perfect safety, human nature invariably leads to less than desired results.

[cdcdawg]

Calling it “clean” seems like an acceptance of the Left’s narrative. While nuclear does meet the same criteria as the Left credits to solar and wind (actually, nuclear is better), arguing with their premises never works out well.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

I still remember the anti-nuke screaming from various magazines such as THE MOTHER EARTH NEWS back in the 1970s.

Then Chernobyl and Three Mile Island were the icing on the cake for power plant fears.

When our local coal fired plant went on line, many locals feared it would “blow up!” and wipe out the whole county.

[NewJerseyJoe]

P4L

[ProtectOurFreedom]

“It requires nothing more than a tank, a pump, and a heat exchanger”

Wow, I never knew power engineering was so simple. Makes me wonder why I spent so many years in the industry and even bothering to get an engineering degree.

[Daveinyork]

I lived and worked within 12 miles of Three Mile Island during the so=called accident. Not even my personality glows.

[wjcsux]

Later.

[Paal Gulli]

The US Navy has been operating its own nuclear reactors since 1958 and currently has more than 200 online. Over those 60 years the Navy has had ZERO serious accidents despite the fact that all 200+ of its reactors are in mobile, seagoing platforms and a number of them even operate for extended periods of time UNDERWATER.

The US Bureau of Mines says that there were five coal miners killed in mining accidents the US in 2020. That's the lowest number ever recorded but it's still five people more than have been killed by nuclear reactor accidents in America in all of history. So even with OSHA and the advanced state of mine safety in the US, coal-fired power plants are responsible for more deaths than nuclear power plants.

Also, "renewable" sources all are inherently unstable, which makes them unsuitable for powering the entire power distribution grid. So a certain portion of the "green" generating capacity (somewhere around 80%) must be matched with output from more stable "conventional" sources (hydroelectric and fossil fuels) and kept in a condition known as Spinning Reserve. In other words, in order to run 10 megawatts of wind/solar on a power grid, it has to also have 8 MW of "conventional" power on stand-by and ready to take up green's slack when the sun goes behind a cloud or the wind stops blowing.

One of the reasons Texas was hit so hard by this ice storm is that they entrusted too much of their grid to wind and didn't have the spinning reserve capacity to stem the loss when all their windmills iced up. It is irrational to continue to spend from a limited coffer and become more dependent on "renewable" power sources that can never power the entire grid (without backup from conventional sources) when nuclear already has proved itself the safest, cleanest and most powerful source of electricity available.

[Savage Beast]

Restore Trump to the Presidency. He’ll get it done.

[NetAddicted]

Rd later.

[Kevmo]

The future of Nuke energy is Enhanced Coulomb Repulsion. Google has a $10M program on this and has already filed 2 patents. 5000x the energy density of gasoline. No gamma rays.