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Economy Puts US Nuclear Reactors Back In Doubt
eldavojohn writes "Remember those 30 new nuclear reactors the US was slated to build? Those plans have been halted. A few years ago, it seemed like a really good idea to build a bunch of nuclear reactors. The environmental impacts of other energy production methods were becoming well known and the economy was tanking. Well, natural gas is now much cheaper, and as a result it looks like building a single nuclear reactor in Maryland is such a risky venture that Constellation can't reach an agreement with the federal government for the loans it needs to build that reactor. The government wants Constellation to sign an agreement with a local energy provider to ensure they'll recoup at least some of the money on the loan, but Constellation doesn't like the terms. So, the first of those thirty reactors has officially stalled, with no resolution in sight. It looks like it'd take an economic meltdown to trigger nuclear reactor production in the US."
see you there? megasloth et al already has a more than sufficient replacement for our endless power needs, butt they have determined that it would not be good for them...., to tell US, as it might interfere with financing the glowbull warmongering crusades, if all of a sudden, we weren't paying by the mile/gallon etc....
'vote' (walk instead of drive, etc...) with (what's left in) your wallet. ignorance is...... dangerous? sanity is.... properly applied military/industrial/political hypenosys/espionage/terrorism? literally killing the opposition?
you have the right to remain silent.
the search continues;
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meanwhile (as it may take a while longer to finish wrecking this place); the corepirate nazi illuminati (remember, (we have been told) we came from monkeys, & 'they' believe they DIDN'T), continues to demand that we learn to live on less/nothing while they continue to consume/waste/destroy immeasurable amounts of stuff/life, & feast on nubile virgins with their self/evile worshipping 'friends'. they're always hunting that patch of red on almost everyones' neck. if they cannot find yours (greed, fear ego etc...) then you can go starve. that's their (slippery/slimy) 'platform' now. see also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisocial_personality_disorder
never a better time to consult with/trust in our creators. the lights are coming up rapidly all over now. see you there?
greed, fear & ego (in any order) are unprecedented evile's primary weapons. those, along with deception & coercion, helps most of us remain (unwittingly?) dependent on its' life0cidal hired goons' agenda. most of our dwindling resources are being squandered on the 'wars', & continuation of the billionerrors stock markup FraUD/pyramid schemes. nobody ever mentions the real long term costs of those debacles in both life & any notion of prosperity for us, or our children. not to mention the abuse of the consciences of those of us who still have one, & the terminal damage to our atmosphere (see also: manufactured 'weather', hot etc...). see you on the other side of it? the lights are coming up all over now. the fairytail is winding down now. let your conscience be your guide. you can be more helpful than you might have imagined. we now have some choices. meanwhile; don't forget to get a little more oxygen on your brain, & look up in the sky from time to time, starting early in the day. there's lots going on up there.
"The current rate of extinction is around 10 to 100 times the usual background level, and has been elevated above the background level since the Pleistocene. The current extinction rate is more rapid than in any other extinction event in earth history, and 50% of species could be extinct by the end of this century. While the role of humans is unclear in the longer-term extinction pattern, it is clear that factors such as deforestation, habitat destruction, hunting, the introduction of non-native species, pollution and climate change have reduced biodiversity profoundly.' (wiki)
"I think the bottom line is, what kind of a world do you want to leave for your children," Andrew Smith, a professor in the Arizona State University School of Life Sciences, said in a telephone interview. "How impoverished we would be if we lost 25 percent of the world's mammals," said Smith, one of more than 100 co-authors of the report. "Within our lifetime hundreds of species could be lost as a result of our own actions, a frightening sign of what is happening to the ecosystems where they live," added Julia Marton-Lefevre, IUCN director general. "We must now set clear targets for the future to reverse this trend to ensure that our enduring legacy is not to wipe out many of our closest relatives."--
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Yes, but not enough of those people put back to work would have been reliable votes for the Democratic Party. It was much more productive to use that stimulus to give money to Democratic donors (unions and others) who could then plow that money back into the Democratic Party's capmaign coffers and lobby the government to get the government to bail out their pension plans (which are underfunded in part because the unions spent millions of dollars getting Democrats elected rather than in funding their pension plans).
The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted. James Madison
The Price-Anderson subsidy for nuclear power is much higher than that. Check your homeowners policy for exclusions and then draw a Chernobyl exclusion zone size patch around the poorly run Indian Point reactor and start adding up property value. You'll see that an accident every 40 years comes to about $0.08/kWh.
I do remember that. Enron, Dick Cheney's company, created brownouts intentionally so they could game the electricity market.
So what is the free market solution to nuclear plant meltdowns?
With respect, it is very clear that you really have nowhere near the amount of understanding of the simplest concepts here if you are going to write things like the above. Go look at a fucking picture showing how a power station works and you may get a clue.
A lot of that waste is effectively sand stuck together, and most of the heavy metals end up in the ash dam anyway.
Now your turn, get back onto nukes, although you probably have no clue there either becuase you are not up to date enough to mention synrock which has only been a major contender for dealing with nuclear waste for thirty fucking years.