Right idea for the wrong reasons....
Grab the popcorn—any youngsters out there get your degree in Environmental Science—some big bucks gigs are out there waiting for you..
They'll just come when they're finished at the latest climate change protest, or BLM march, or pro-abortion gathering, they're all the same protestors.
The last US nuclear power plant under construction is Georgia Power’s Vogtle property. Once estimated to cost $14 billion, the price tag has climbed past $30 billion, and both units will be more than six years late in coming online
Will TVA be able to build ANYTHING in the next 15 years? Everything from green propaganda to bloated progressive government regulation to loss of American worker skills to massive debt - means the USA has difficulty building any big projects any more.
Thorium reactors...
Let private industry do it...
Do not need Oak Ridge guaranteeing several more generations of employees a comfortable retirement cushion...
I worked at TVA in the ‘70’s and ‘80’s...I worked in Knoxville as a Design Engineer Associate...I did work on Bellefonte, Sequoyah, Watts Bar, Brown’s Ferry, and Yellow Creek Nuclear Plants...
“small modular nuclear reactors”
About time, only been saying this for over 30 years.
Only ten years late to the party.
Union of Concerned Scientists is pretty much KGB. “Nuclear Winter,” for instance, was the work of Sergei Tretyakov and the Red Banner Institute. UCS knew that, and even invited Soviet observers by sat link to participate in Carl Sagan’s 1983 conference to promote the theory. KGB asset Paul Crutzen won a Nobel Prize for his work on ozone depletion, but was a key force behind UCS.
And what do they propose to do with all the radioactive waste, give it to Space X?
From a system wide perspective, smr’s would be the way to go. Decentralize the grid and reduce energy waste in transmission over long distances. We’ve been building smr’s for naval vessels for fifty years, we know how to do it if the obstructionists would just stand back. And unlike large reactors smr’s could be virtually mass produced on demand. The list of opponents really tells the tale— left wing radicals.