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US Nuclear Power Industry Poised For a Comeback
ThousandStars sends us to The Wall Street Journal for a report that momentum for nuclear energy is waxing in the US. "For the first time in decades, popular opinion is on the industry's side. A majority of Americans thinks nuclear power, which emits virtually no carbon dioxide, is a safe and effective way to battle climate change, according to recent polls. At the same time, legislators are showing renewed interest in nuclear as they hunt for ways to slash greenhouse-gas emissions. The industry is seizing this chance to move out of the shadow of Three Mile Island and Chernobyl and show that it has solved the three big problems that have long dogged it: cost, safety and waste."
Time to order a couple thousand 1970s era alarm clocks (With the glowing dials) and start up a nuclear pile in my garage!
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
Back then, we didn't have Windows. Now we do, and we can use Windows and Windows technologies to control our systems. Stuff like OPC (OLE for Process Control, yes, that OLE...).
And plant management can open up a nifty Excel worksheet, pulling out the numbers from the plant immediately...
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But your great, great, great, great, great grandchildren will be employed monitoring the "by-products".
You are right, they definitely need to completely solve the waste problem before they proceed with building another nuclear plant.
Just look at the coal plants, their waste floats away on it's own. No need to store anything on site like that dirty nuclear technology!!
... he then proceeded to shoot flames from his eyes in order to warm a cup of coffee while the small, winglike appendages growing from the sides of his neck flapped excitedly.
If libertarians are so opposed to effective government, why don't they all move to Somalia?
"Congratulations Homer! You've turned a potential Chernobyl into a mere Three Mile Island!
Want to improve your life? This guy will show you how!
Don't play with reactors, right. got that.
Personally, I think we should rethink breeder reactors.
Hell, no! Pretty soon we'd have reactors running around everywhere!
You can't build them until you can find an effective method of birth control for them!
That is all.
Agreed. One might even say they're the Cadillacs of analogies.
I use this fallacy all the time, but as a joke. Or to prove the point that nothing can offer a perfect solution and that some pollution has to be tolerated.
You forget the argument against methane. It's a very strong greenhouse gas. Of course people like to ignore that it is in such small quantities that there are other green house gases that have a larger overall effect. (water vapor being the worse one I believe, so quit letting those oceans evaporate into clouds)
“Common sense is not so common.” — Voltaire
Radio Active Waste System Handler Intensive Treatment
R.A.W.S.H.I.T... ROFL...