I have always been afraid of nuclear power - having been a child during the Three Mile accident, and aware of the recurrent fallout from Chernobyl.
However, it is amazing just how much money that we have invested in a oil war (did I say that?) that could have gone into nucular(sic) development. Thirty-five years since last construction on a nuclear facility, and with process improvement, cannot we do better that a third of a century ago? Wow, what an industry, and the jobs, a boon to the economy, if we were to start a commitment to increasing nuclear energy. As long as we don't look the other way as illegal immigrants do all the construction work for next to nothing, we can provide our retiring and returning military, especially the SeaBees (Construction Battallions), with steady, lucrative, meaningful work. Plus, they could provide security for these facilities.
In the meantime, why not push for hybrid fuel transportation, like, yesterday.
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I have never been afraid of Nuclear power but unlike you I have been around Nuclear power my entire life. I have spent litterally hundreds of hours at the St. Lucie Nuclear powerplant and have even been in places that the public now is unfortunately not allowed to enter. The blue glow from the storage vats for spent fuel is truly beautiful.
However, it will never work in America. Because there is no way that anyone in power will allow us to achieve it. Simply, because there simply is too much money involved in energy. Tesla once went into a meeting of energy executinve and showed them a power source that would asorb power from the static electricity in surrounding objects. He was laughed out of the room and within 3 months grew ill and died.....
Makes you wonder.
True story by the way cliff
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