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[tirebiter]

1. The idea has merit. Reactors need to be downsized from the US and Russian models

I spent a good part of the 70’s And 80’s demonstrating against nuke power in California. When I went to France in 2000 I was awed by the concept of a nation getting 70-80% of their electricity from nuke power. It was and remains the best thing the French Socialists put together. The power plants are way smaller and present less of a possible disaster.

[Midnight Writer]

5. I had a buddy who served on nuclear powered submarines in the 70s.

He said the power plant was in a chamber as big as a good size closet, and produced enough energy to power a midsize town.

I've often wondered why we are making massive multi-billion dollar reactors instead of smaller reactors that serve smaller areas.

[Mike 03]

2. I know this view might not be a popular view, but after reading William Vollmann's

two volume opus on climate change, Carbon Ideologies, I came to the same conclusion, after years of fretting over nuclear power. He analyzes the major energy sources, and he actually visited Fukushima, and he argues that all of them are pretty bad, but I swear to god, after reading that book I thought, "I'd much, much, much rather take my chances at Fukushima than be drinking tap water in West Virginia or breathing air near a fracking field or coal plant." It wasn't even a close call for me.

Some of these other ideas that sound so exciting, like carbon capture and sequestration, when you read the facts and about the number of machines that would have to be produced, and the "energy cost" of that production, as fantastic as these machines are, it's just not practical. Check out Uninhabitable Earth for the stupefying facts about how many CC&S machines we would have to build every minute for the next fifty years. As thrilling as that technology is (and those machines are beautiful), it's a ludicrous proposition.

Just my opinion.

Although I'm always looking for new and better breakthroughs and possibilities.

[Cicada]

3. Nukes aren't as dangerous as Middle East wars for oil

And now there are small Mini nukes Power generators made in a factory shipped to site. Each small nuke Power unit has limited risk. You can put a bunch of them around a central hub and pump out a ton of power from the site. This is something that can actually change the atmosphere. Install thousands of them.

[in2herbs]

4. And what happens to the nuclear waste? nt