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China Goes Nuclear
Rei writes "Wired reports that the People's Republic of China has announced plans to build 30 new nuclear reactors by the year 2020, and by 2050 have almost as much nuclear power as the entire world produces today. The reactors are to be pebble bed reactors, in which helium replaces radioactive, pressurized water. A Chinese research institution demonstrated the safety of their test reactor against meltdown by shutting off the coolant."
Now this is the last thing we need... a much larger chernobyl with 1.? billion people.
You're all bastards!
Quick, America, threaten to bomb China for daring to indulge in using nuclear material! Quick, quick, do it before they make some of it into bombs! OOOPS ... wait, wait, China can kick America's ass. Never mind. Back to threatening Iran.
[You have a stable society when some nut guns down a schoolyard and the law doesn't change.]
If those of us in Nevada have our say, you'll never have Yucca Mountain. We don't have a single nuclear reactor in the state and yet, somehow, we're supposed to accept the waste from the entire country? And that's the best idea to deal with it? Stick it in a hole for 10,000 years and hope for the best? I think that's why there are a good number of us not too keen on the idea. You made the waste. YOU figure out how to deal with it in your own state, thank you.
There is a difference between "insightful" and "inciteful" other than spelling.
Besides being incredibly long winded and not very accurate. You sir are a Luddite. Yucca mountain does not even need to exist. There is no need to bury any of it. Just one of your little "forgotten" points is the after the DOE made that promise the Carter administration baned the reprocessing of the fuel. You are so totally closed minded on the subject you can't even see the forest for the trees. If we reprocessed it there would be no problem in the first place. I notice you even managed to get in a little political bashing. So here is mine. The only difference between Bush and Kerry is the name. They both lie like whores in church.
A plant doesn't do you a lot of good if you don't have a uranium supply.