[BigTex]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Tyler_JC', 'C')an 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?

[Tyler_JC]

I don't know, I've become kind of violent recently.

First I'm demanding that Hummer drivers get liquified, now I'm slapping Greenpeace.

I should take up meditation.

[BigTex]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Tyler_JC', 'I') don't know, I've become kind of violent recently.

First I'm demanding that Hummer drivers get liquified, now I'm slapping Greenpeace.

I should take up meditation.

[Ludi]

Oooo, I guess it's all my fault!

[Tyler_JC]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', 'O')ooo, I guess it's all my fault!

[BigTex]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', 'O')ooo, I guess it's all my fault!

[Electric_Economy_2025]

What happens to the enviromentalist and thier legal teams, if the government says that new nuclear power plants are to be fast tracked and built do to national security ?

[Tanada]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('BigTex', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', 'O')ooo, I guess it's all my fault!

[Ludi]

No, the only environmental type organizations I belong to are Bat Conservation International and the Texas Ornithological Society.


BatCon


The reason I don't support nuke plants is because I'm a DBISEY (Don't Build In Someone Else's Yard) and my region doesn't have enough water to support nuke plants (or any kind of large-scale energy generation). I don't support any kind of new large-scale energy generation schemes. But at the same time, I'm not off in someone else's yard telling them they can't build a nuke plant (at least 2 new nukes are planned for Texas, last I heard).

[TheDude]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Tanada', '')$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.

[Plantagenet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('TheDude', ' ')My biggest fear is a crash program of plants in the wake of blackouts

[SchroedingersCat]

If someone comes up with a nice plug and play nuke plant that is standardized and can be safely operated the public would be behind it in a hurry. Current plants are dangerous because they are mostly built on technology that is decades old. We've come a long way in our understanding of safety and critical systems.

How about small, local plants that are fueled with some kind of sealed drum of nuclear material. It gets loaded in, used and removed with little or no risk. Let's see nimby's et al fight that.

This is one area that technology could be used to fix the problem but nobody seems to be looking at the right solution.

[Plantagenet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('SchroedingersCat', 'I')f someone comes up with a nice plug and play nuke plant that is standardized and can be safely operated the public would be behind it in a hurry. Current plants are dangerous because they are mostly built on technology that is decades old. We've come a long way in our understanding of safety and critical systems.

How about small, local plants that are fueled with some kind of sealed drum of nuclear material. It gets loaded in, used and removed with little or no risk. Let's see nimby's et al fight that.

This is one area that technology could be used to fix the problem but nobody seems to be looking at the right solution.

[mos6507]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', '
')The liberal anti-nuke luddites and the liberal MSM have opposed nukes for more than 40+ years in the US. A new simple safe design isn't going to convince the luddites to support nukes---Its all about fear-mongering for them, not rationality. They'll never stop trying to make people afraid of nukes and they'll never stop blocking new plants.

[Tanada]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('TheDude', '
')Nukes aren't used for peaking, they would've needed added generation anyway - or reduced demand/increased efficiency/dependence on sources like hydro. Whether WWPPS could've been pulled off sans all those freshly hatched Gaia loving hippies having their say I couldn't tell you - certainly the name of the game in the PNW all my life has been NIMBY and then some - look at the current staunch opposition to LNG.

I'm not dead opposed to splitting atoms, either - just want it to be done right. My biggest fear is a crash program of plants in the wake of blackouts that aren't much of an improvement over RBMKs.

[Battle_Scarred_Galactico]

Another sneak peek of the scapegoating to come.

What do you think its' going to be like when we're actually having power outages ?

[Plantagenet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mos6507', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', '
')The liberal anti-nuke luddites and the liberal MSM have opposed nukes for more than 40+ years in the US. A new simple safe design isn't going to convince the luddites to support nukes---Its all about fear-mongering for them, not rationality. They'll never stop trying to make people afraid of nukes and they'll never stop blocking new plants.

[mos6507]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', '
')The word "liberal" isn't an epithet.

[Plantagenet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mos6507', '"')blame game"....