Posted on 02/07/2012 6:22:20 PM PST by matt04
“Then, a plan to shut down 50 year-old dinosaurs in a phase-out process while introducing safer, modern designs should be next.”
And the reason this is not happening is because the no nuke freaks have made it impossible to build any more plants. So we keep running the old ones, complete with all of their old technology and (hindsight being twenty twenty) design flaws.
I am not scared of the ones we have now, catastrophic, uncontrollable failures are highly unlikely.
But we could do better if we were allowed to.
(By “we” I mean society in general - not trying to imply I have anything to do with the nuclear power industry)
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