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Should the U.S. Try to Win the Nuke Power Race?

Posted June 20, 2009 7:28 AM

The U.S. is losing the race to build new nuclear plants. While other developed and developing nations are putting shovels in the ground, new U.S. nukes are mired in interminable planning and review. China alone has over 20 plants under construction. Is this a race worth winning, or is the U.S. right to take a wait and see approach?

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07/06/2009 10:23 PM

If the Chinese nuclear plants are of as high a quality as the stuff Wal Mart sells, I guess we really ought to buy the plans and build whatever it is they are building.

Hey, just kidding.

Maybe the French designs are a bit better.

I'm extremely attracted myself to fuels that I have to wear suits to pick up and put down, or I die.

It is extremely attractive to me to have all the wastes piled up somewhere secret that are lethal for thousands of years.

Wow, and you can either make bombs from it, or just throw it around and make any civilized place uninhabitable for generations.

Great solution to our energy problems!

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Re: Should the U.S. Try to Win the Nuke Power Race?

07/10/2009 11:39 AM

Race? Nuclear? Is the world out of its mind? Have we firgured out what to do with nuclear waste yet? I guess if we want to race to the death line we can move very slowly in my opinion.

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Re: Should the U.S. Try to Win the Nuke Power Race?

07/16/2009 10:17 PM

Trancedian says it well, what to do with the waste. If knew we had a way to get rid of that safely I would be all for nuclear, but all of a sudden it is the trendy thing. What gives???? Where are the "enviromentalists" now? It scares me that all these other countries are building these things right and left and when they screw up (blow up) who gets to bail them out......yeah the good old USA....

the sarcsm is free.....

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