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22 Countries, Including U.S., Pledge to Triple Nuclear Power Capacity
Power Magazine ^ | December 2, 2023 | Darrel Proctor

Posted on 12/03/2023 6:37:51 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom

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To: Jean2

Politofiction. It worked.


21 posted on 12/03/2023 8:08:20 PM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: Reverend Wright
Read your links before you post them. It will save you some embarrassment.

I quote from your own link:

The West has been reluctant to target Russia’s nuclear exports, however, because they play key roles in keeping reactors humming. Russia supplied the U.S. nuclear industry with about 12% of its uranium last year, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Europe reported getting about 17% of its uranium in 2022 from Russia.

22 posted on 12/03/2023 8:46:28 PM PST by Chad C. Mulligan
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

USA is trying to restart, but currently has ZERO uranium processing capacity.

That’s why Russian imports are not sanctioned.

https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/More-progress-towards-US-uranium-production-restar

This is what happens when you have Globohomo “Free Trade” @ssholes running your economy.


23 posted on 12/03/2023 9:47:21 PM PST by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: rktman

Sadly yes it did. Like someone once said; “Nobody ever went broke underestimating the stupidity of the American people.”


24 posted on 12/03/2023 10:30:42 PM PST by Jean2
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

This could very well be the final suicide. Beside having no 100,000 year safe place to store the waist. Just look at the decline in the world around us. Just think about what can happen to these things when society totally breaks down.


25 posted on 12/04/2023 12:18:52 AM PST by Revel
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To: Reverend Wright
Well, it's very low since 2018, but it's not zero. And we only idled the plant in Illinois "due to low market demand". (Moscow was dumping product on the market at below cost maybe?) It's still there, and Honeywell reports that they expect to start it up again in 2024. Stop with the propaganda, and the stupid pejoratives. They make you look dumber than you undoubtedly are.

https://world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Idled-US-conversion-plant-preparing-for-restart

26 posted on 12/04/2023 1:13:30 AM PST by Chad C. Mulligan
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

“Stop with the propaganda, and the stupid pejoratives.”


Come off it buddy.

Forget dependence on imported uranium fuel.

What “pejoratives” do you suggest for this situation ?

https://dailycaller.com/2023/06/19/raytheon-china-greg-hayes-decoupling/


27 posted on 12/04/2023 1:22:12 AM PST by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

“...we only idled the plant in Illinois “due to low market demand”. (Moscow was dumping product on the market at below cost maybe?) ...”


Nothing says retarded “Free Trade” f#cking @ssholes like shutting down your nuclear processing because of cheap imports : “...And we can’t violate the sacred principles of free trade...”

Only a failing Empire in an advanced state of degeneracy and decay would do this.

There is a reason Khazakstan has such a large share of the USA market. Here it is.

https://themarketswork.com/2017/12/21/a-uranium-one-primer-clinton-giustra-kazakhstans-uranium-assets/


28 posted on 12/04/2023 1:28:33 AM PST by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: poconopundit

When all looks kinda rosey never think that these evil pr###s that came up with this are resting


29 posted on 12/04/2023 2:11:18 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

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30 posted on 12/04/2023 2:50:50 AM PST by sauropod (The obedient always think of themselves as virtuous rather than cowardly.)
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To: Reverend Wright
“When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the losers.” -Socrates-
31 posted on 12/04/2023 3:39:00 AM PST by Chad C. Mulligan
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

That’s the ONLY thing to come out of this Gaia worship conference that makes any sense.


32 posted on 12/04/2023 3:57:38 AM PST by FLT-bird
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

“That is an $18 TRILLION investment.”

Can you give a comparative cost? You say Vogtle 3 & 4 cost about 13.6 billion per gigawatt, which is about 13.6 dollars per watt.

Is that high? An engineer told me that for nuclear plant, fuel costs are small compared to interest on the borrowed money to build it, and operation/maintenance/depreciation costs.

A comparison of total lifetime cost per kilowatt hour, nuclear versus natural gas or coal, would be interesting.


33 posted on 12/04/2023 5:05:46 AM PST by cymbeline
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To: cymbeline

I’ve lived long enough to remember when environmentalists hated nuclear power.


34 posted on 12/04/2023 5:22:38 AM PST by popdonnelly (All the enormous crimes in history have been committed by governments.)
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To: Revel

We built a facility for nucler waste and the cancelled the project.


35 posted on 12/04/2023 5:28:46 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Jean2

More people died in Ted Kennedy’s Oldsmobile than died at 3 Mile Island.


36 posted on 12/04/2023 5:30:02 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: cymbeline
You are describing what’s known as the Levelized cost of electricity which is used to compare the 30 year lifetime cost of electricity produced by a plant.

The Lazard chart at the Wiki page of LCOE is deceptive for wind and solar because it does not account for intermittency and does not include the full system needed to make the power “dispatchable,” i.e., you can ramp it up and down to match demand. This has been an egregious BIG LIE about renewables the past 30 years.

You make coal plants dispatchable by keeping a 90 day supply of coal on the ground at the plant to buffer delivery problems (typical in winter) and labor stoppages. There is no practical, reliable, low cost or feasible way to store power generated by wind and solar.

37 posted on 12/04/2023 5:31:31 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
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To: popdonnelly

Actually, they hate nuclear waste.

The power plants generate wastes that are harmful for tens of thousands of years.

This was argued to me over and over by a rabid antinuke envirowacko woman


38 posted on 12/04/2023 5:32:41 AM PST by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Joe Biden is a kleptocrat)
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To: central_va

Wow!!!!!! Amen

Three mile Island was an engineering success. Problems were detected and the plant was shut down as per the designers intent


39 posted on 12/04/2023 5:35:30 AM PST by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Joe Biden is a kleptocrat)
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To: lapsus calami

Do a GIS on “small nuclear reactors”. The number of designs are impressive.


40 posted on 12/04/2023 6:22:41 AM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("All he had was a handgun. Why did you think that was a threat?" --Rittenhouse Prosecutor)
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