[Kylon]

I mean, it's as clear as day obvious that's the only way we won't have a complete and total economic collapse.

Are they trying to cause the U.S economy to collapse?

[SchroedingersCat]

Last time I checked the government wasn't in the business of building power plants of any type. If private investors want to put a nuclear plant online that is certainly their business. The government will be happy to look at their plans and approve them or suggest where changes need to be made.

[Plantagenet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('SchroedingersCat', 'L')ast time I checked the government wasn't in the business of building power plants of any type. If private investors want to put a nuclear plant online that is certainly their business. The government will be happy to look at their plans and approve them or suggest where changes need to be made.

[mos6507]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('SchroedingersCat', 'L')ast time I checked the government wasn't in the business of building power plants of any type. If private investors want to put a nuclear plant online that is certainly their business. The government will be happy to look at their plans and approve them or suggest where changes need to be made.

[Dreamtwister]

Don't forget, Kylon, uranium is a finite and expensive material as well. Even if the 10 year, $200 million court battle against the environmentalists is won, you're still going to have to find the materials and skilled labour to build and operate the plant.

[Kylon]

For materials we can always breed more uranium from thorium, and for plutonium from U-238.


As for labor, as industries dry up requiring similar skill sets, people from those industries can be quickly retrained to become nuclear technicians.

[jlw61]

That's a really good question and you've gotten some really good answers. So let's check motivation. Why doesn't the US governement simply put a waiver on the industry and make it virtually impossible for the environment et al groups to take the battle to court? Such a move would virtually eliminate four or more years and hundreds of millions of dollars in building a plant.

I see two reasons, either the Federal Government is this large over-encompassing evil organization that want us all to suffer ...

... or it's this big, massive pig that is scared of every group that can raise their voices and a few million dollars in donations because the individual members are afraid of losing their job.

Government does two things really well: Spend money and project force. The elected officials, as individuals can only collect money and votes for their next reelection. They want to stay elected and therefor they will do nearly anything to stay elected. So if you want lots of nuclear power, you have to start a movement that will overshadow the groups that exist who oppose it.

The anti-nukes are loud and obnoxious and threaten the elected officials with their groups while the rest of us sit quietly and mind our business and wonder why the electric rates continue to go up.

[Tanada]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('jlw61', 'T')hat's a really good question and you've gotten some really good answers. So let's check motivation. Why doesn't the US governement simply put a waiver on the industry and make it virtually impossible for the environment et al groups to take the battle to court? Such a move would virtually eliminate four or more years and hundreds of millions of dollars in building a plant.

I see two reasons, either the Federal Government is this large over-encompassing evil organization that want us all to suffer ...

... or it's this big, massive pig that is scared of every group that can raise their voices and a few million dollars in donations because the individual members are afraid of losing their job.

Government does two things really well: Spend money and project force. The elected officials, as individuals can only collect money and votes for their next reelection. They want to stay elected and therefor they will do nearly anything to stay elected. So if you want lots of nuclear power, you have to start a movement that will overshadow the groups that exist who oppose it.

The anti-nukes are loud and obnoxious and threaten the elected officials with their groups while the rest of us sit quietly and mind our business and wonder why the electric rates continue to go up.

[Ludi]

Oh those damn environmentalists! It's all their fault! They want us all to DIE!

[Tanada]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', 'O')h those damn environmentalists! It's all their fault! They want us all to DIE!

[Ludi]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Tanada', 'T')he truth is a lot of people wearing that lable do hate human beings and everything about them.

[BigTex]

I wonder why Mexico doesn't build a bunch of nuclear power plants along the U.S. border and sell all that cheap electricity to the gringos.

Build one at Nuevo Laredo, Juarez, along the Arizona border and in Tijuana.

But you know what, the prospect of a bunch of Mexicans operating nuclear power plants troubles me. I know that sounds terrible, but it's not the Mexicans I am concerned about so much as their incredibly corrupt government.

I am picturing south Padre Island downwind from a meltdown at the Matamoros reactor. They would call the disaster "Tres Mile Island."

[POAlex]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Kylon', 'A')re they trying to cause the U.S economy to collapse?

[Ludi]

There's not enough water in that region to support typical nuke plants.

[Tanada]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Tanada', 'T')he truth is a lot of people wearing that lable do hate human beings and everything about them.

[BigTex]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', 'T')here's not enough water in that region to support typical nuke plants.

[Plantagenet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('jlw61', '.').. let's check motivation. Why doesn't the US governement simply put a waiver on the industry and make it virtually impossible for the environment et al groups to take the battle to court?

The anti-nukes are loud and obnoxious and threaten the elected officials with their groups while the rest of us sit quietly and mind our business and wonder why the electric rates continue to go up.

[TheDude]

Luddites, liberals, and NIMBYs are far from the only things holding back nuclear power builds - remember the Washington Public Power Supply System, better known as WPPSS (i.e., "Woops")? 2.25 billion dollar bond default, one reactor out of five actually built. Quite the boondoggle.

TOD has had innumerable articles on nukes, including a brand new one this morning, Continuing the Nuclear Debate. You can get the scoop from every imaginable angle reading those.

Best,

[Tanada]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('TheDude', 'L')uddites, liberals, and NIMBYs are far from the only things holding back nuclear power builds - remember the Washington Public Power Supply System, better known as WPPSS (i.e., "Woops")? 2.25 billion dollar bond default, one reactor out of five actually built. Quite the boondoggle.

[Tyler_JC]

I blame Greenpeace, the Earth Liberation Front, and the rest of the radicals.

They believe that we can simply conserve and build solar panels to fix all of our problems.

But if we ever build solar power on the scale they're talking about, they would oppose it!!!!

Can I have permission to slap these people every time they try to get me to sign one of their stupid petitions to ban the use of nuclear power?

70% of radioactive waste comes from America's nuclear WEAPONS program, not the commercial power stations.

To the previous poster, yes, the Radical Environmentalists DO want us to die.

Read this forum. Read the kind of language that some use to describe human beings, "virus, scourge of planet earth, population reduction starts at home, greedy bacteria, etc., etc."

The radical environmentalists are the enemy of nuclear power and civilization in general .

Good luck building a nuclear plant while these people are still willing to commit domestic terrorism to stop it.