Posted on 08/08/2023 10:20:58 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The U.S. brings a new Westinghouse AP1000 nuclear reactor online in Georgia, the first in 7 years, signaling a potential nuclear renaissance.
Historical fears and incidents hindered nuclear development, but changing perceptions and energy needs have positioned nuclear as a clean energy solution.
While challenges like high costs and lengthy development times persist, political support, funding, and improving public opinion could drive a resurgence in U.S. nuclear energy.
Following the energy shortages of 2022, the U.S. has been racing to reinvigorate its nuclear energy sector. Long neglected, nuclear power appears to be making a comeback in the U.S., having gained funding and political support from the Biden administration, and being seen as an obvious option to help accelerate a green transition. In recent years, the U.S. has been trying to simply keep its existing nuclear reactors ticking over but, for the first time in 7 years, a new reactor is up and running, spurring greater optimism for the future of U.S. nuclear energy.
In July, Georgia Power brought a new Westinghouse AP1000 nuclear reactor online, sending power to the U.S. grid. The Unit 3 reactor at Plant Vogtle in Georgia began operations last month following successful preliminary testing in March. The reactor generates around 1,110 MW of energy, enough to power roughly 500,000 homes and businesses. This is the first new reactor to come into operation since 2016 when the Watts Bar Unit 2 came online in Tennessee under the Tennessee Valley Authority.
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Go pound sand and leave me alone.
Here’s a great example of the green lie:
They create new categories like biomass and house trash. Hahaha
Do you know what that is? Methane, a fossil fuel. It produces CO2, acid, hydrocarbons... Biomass is just a new made up category to show how they are going green when in reality it’s a combustion of methane gas.
Then they buy power from the French who generate 70% of their power from nuclear.
https://www.ceicdata.com/en/germany/electricity-imports-and-exports/electricity-imports-france
The Germans don’t advertise this, but you need power when you need it, not when you don’t need it, and the problem with green power is that it tends to produce less when you need it most! So, during these times of shortfalls, the Germans (used as an example by the green power advocates in the US) buy nuclear power from France. France in the meantime is building more power plants along the border! Hahaha
Green power is damn near comical.
Here are some general rules when debating folks.
People that have no argument, but feel strongly on the subject, flee to fallacies and rhetoric and pretend that is an argument.
When you start shaking people up and make them feel insecure in their beliefs, they often attack you.
Very few people actually “think.” Formal logic is not taught in the humanities and philosophy today, not even in college for the most part. The fallacies are not taught in school. Writing skills are weak and it’s when you write that you organize your thoughts (list arguments, weight them, organize them: create an outline). In fact, today it’s so bad that people literally think their disorganized and often contradicting and incoherent feelings are reality. Bottom line, don’t expect someone to make sense when debating with them.
Issues that are popular and in the media, are reduced to slogans and decided upon by a form of group think (how the majority feels), celebrity endorsement, pseudo science, and repetition. May it be climate change, Covid, Ukraine... these issues are not really decided upon on the merits of any facts.
All issues in the political realm are distorted. These issues go through a political and economic filter and the solutions offered often do not even address the stated problem, i.e. an inflation reduction act which makes inflation worse... Politicians use issues to self promote or damage their opponents, they represent the voter but also those that behind the scene fund their party and campaigns. People look towards government to abdicate personal responsibility or culpability, but seldom does government actually fix the problem.
Risk is a wild card. An unknown risk can be sold and people will prefer that over the known risk. But it is also something which makes people shy away and prefer a far greater risk simply because they are family with it. Risk amplifies how people see things and it can cut both ways making something far better or worse than it really is.
Most people don’t care. Only a small percentage of people actually concern themselves with issues that impact their life. Most people are on cruise control and simply do as they are told, which today makes you a “good person.” Do not expect people to care, they are distracted by pop culture nonsense, porn, make belief causes, sports (only watching it, not doing any).
You posted some big long thing I’m not going to read.
I try to use simple words and short sentences for you. Even you should understand the points made.
I’ve told you repeatedly to leave me alone and you’re still posting to me. Apparently you are incapable of understanding the point I am making. So, I’ll stop trying to get it through your head.
No one is making you post.
You can stop writing anytime.
Did you know Fiestawear used a red color in their dishes which was radioactive?
https://www.orau.gov/health-physics-museum/collection/consumer/ceramics/fiestaware.html
Do you know that there is glass (mostly historic but still sold today) that contains uranium?
https://www.decorativecollective.com/blog/post/a-beginners-guide-to-uranium-glass
But... one of the most common radioactive materials that’s in many peoples homes, all around the nation, is Am241:
https://www.epa.gov/radtown/americium-ionization-smoke-detectors.
Tritium is of course used on signs, in scopes, instrument dials, watches... and is pretty common too.
Of course radioactive isotopes are also used in healthcare, armor, ammunition, counter mass, radiation shielding (DU), and many other applications. Some of these radioactive isotopes are natural, others are not: https://www.ansto.gov.au/education/nuclear-facts/what-are-radioisotopes
For some reason, Brazil nuts are fairly radioactive (radium 226): https://www.epa.gov/radtown/natural-radioactivity-food#:~:text=Like%20bananas%2C%20Brazil%20nuts%20contain,be%20confused%20with%20food%20irradiation.
Did you know these foods also are usually radioactive? Red meat, lima beans, carrots, bananas, white potato. What do we do?
hypocrisy much ?
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