Duh.
We should have been building nuke plants and refineries 30 years ago. Politicians are extremely short sighted.
Posted on 03/21/2008 10:20:15 AM PDT by FocusNexus
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger may have signaled a new era of common sense for California regarding energy matters by announcing last week that nuclear power has "a great future" and should be considered, rather than "just looking the other way and living in denial."
We hope this points to a change in attitude among policy-makers, and to overturning a statewide ban on nuclear power plants imposed in 1976. Assemblyman Chuck DeVore, R-Irvine, who last year unsuccessfully authored a nuclear energy bill, is encouraged by Schwarzenegger's endorsement of the concept.
"I'm delighted to see Gov. Schwarzenegger now out front on this vital issue," DeVore said. The Irvine Republican again has introduced two bills (AB 1776 and AB 2788) in the current session to repeal the nuclear power-plant prohibition.
Schwarzenegger and DeVore are joined by public opinion that increasingly looks favorably on nuclear energy. A 2006 poll of likely voters, for example, showed those favoring nuclear power to be equal to those opposed, each drawing 46 percent of responders.
On the negative side, the usual suspects are in opposition. "Nuclear power has no future in California's new energy era because of its monumental dangers to the health and welfare of Californians," declared Democratic Assemblyman Lloyd Levine, chairman of the Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee.
Contrary to Levine's assertion, there are at least 434 operating nuclear reactors worldwide meeting the electrical needs of a billion-plus people, according to a report by the National Center for Policy Analysis.
Nuclear power provides about 75 percent of France's energy, and even 20 percent of U.S. power from 103 nuclear plants, including two California plants in San Onofre and Diablo Canyon. China plans 30 new nuclear reactors in the next five years.
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Oh Yes. He’s been working so hard to advance nuclear power as a viable energy source. So so hard.
Hey arnold how about deporting the excess baggage in this state.
“I’m delighted to see Gov. Schwarzenegger now out front on this vital issue,” DeVore said. The Irvine Republican again has introduced two bills (AB 1776 and AB 2788) in the current session to repeal the nuclear power-plant prohibition.
Don’t you want to have the nuclear plant ban repealed?
Cool.
hey arnold how about getting rid of the excess baggage known as our neighbors invading from the south....
Could the Governator’s strongly Leftist stance be comnpletely reversed by this single issue? Maybe so.
Actually, having the US get most of its energy from nuclear plants, as does France, would make a much larger difference for the country, than controlling the borders.
That is NOT to be interpreted as my not being in favor of sealing the border, because I am in favor of that. But comparatively, if we did get 75-80% of our energy from nuclear and used that for running our industries and electricity, and would only use the oil for gas for our cars, we would not be dependent on foreign oil and the ME countries would lose the hold they have over us. And if all the other energy hungry nations like China and India would do the same, the price of oil would tumble.
I’ll believe it when I see it .. and you know what the chances are of this passing in the current environment and legislature.
Maybe it would mean more if his appointemnts to all too many environemntal and energy related boards in this state weren’t anti-nuke and aganst offshore drilling, jmo.
and where is the “common sense” when it comes to global varming,, oops, I mean climate change..
Plastics. Lubricants.
“and where is the “common sense” when it comes to global varming,, oops, I mean climate change..”
Nuclear power is the solution for that too.
Could the Governator’s strongly Leftist stance be comnpletely reversed by this single issue? Maybe so.
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I doubt it myslef.. His hands are tied.. The Kennedys made sure of that. This is just more blather from him, imo.
Bad news: you won’t depend on Oil but Uranium.
Good news: Canada has some of the largest uranium resources in the world. We wouldn’t even need ships to put our troops there :-)
We have no chance at energy independence or energy cost reduction without massive increases in nuclear power. None. When France and China are ahead of the curve on energy production, you know there is a problem.
Duh.
We should have been building nuke plants and refineries 30 years ago. Politicians are extremely short sighted.
The Democrats are the ones who want to destroy our economy.
I looked it up and big liberal Dem Jerry Brown was governor of CA from 1975 to 1983, and the ban was passed in 1976. If CA had a R governor at the time, I bet he would have vetoed it.
Even now, the Dems are the ones against nuclear power.
The moratorium imposed in this state in 1976 and across the country was based on us not having a storage place for spent fuel.. none of that has changed. The GUb is first an environut... and now is forced to act like he is for something he has been anything but for by his past actions.
This is all window dressing, imo.
The moratorium became a national thing in case you didn’t notice, but nice try at spinning this as a state level issue and using the infamous R.
I have worked on projects that provided for spent fuel storage, it was an issue used to delay any future construction here. quite a number of facilitites already do their on -storage and have for years.
Again, I’d ike to believe he will go all in, but again if past performance is any indication of future results. well you know the tune, his appointments on boards whistle it every day.
Got to run some errands, but as the T3 said, I’ll be bock.
Every time I’ve suggested nuclear powered vehicles to acquaintances of mine they look at me as if I had three heads and say, “Yeah. Then we’ll have a nuclear explosion when vehicles collide.”
More like “Master of the Oblivious.”
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