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Nuclear Power Could See a Revival
shmG writes "As the US moves to reduce dependence on oil, the nuclear industry is looking to expand, with new designs making their way through the regulatory process. No less than three new configurations for nuclear power are being considered for licensing by the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The first of them could be generating power in Georgia by 2016."
honestly, this is 20 years overdue.
Maybe nuclear power just needed time to reach critical mass...
Outlaw the di-hydrogen-monoxide bomb.
Finally. The Politicians have stopped splitting hairs, and are going to start splitting atoms.
Science advances one funeral at a time- Max Planck
Tourist buses frequently crash in Pripyat.
To think that Carter was the last President that was an Engineer !! Now all we have are lawyers
G
Pave France.
Nerd rage is the funniest rage.
Isn't it amazing that this nuclear revival is happening in the year of the Linux desktop!
Thorium's easy to get, just go to Winterspring.
You have to keep killing the zombies. They just get up again after some time.
Umm... true.
But hey, who said that the slashdot discussions have to be objective?
(Although I (rhetorically?) asked for examples, I have no time to actually search for examples myself. I see that your laser-vision can see through my false argumentation - so this is my completely worthless comeback to save my ass).
-- in Soviet Russia, nuclear reactors decommission you!
Name me one nuclear power station...
I hereby christen thee "Sir One Nuclear Power Station."
So you're saying America should've voted in McCain-Palin in 2008?