TWENTY NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS - Fifty Percent of the nation's energy needs.

[jeff47]

71. That would be relevant if we were talking about building more nuclear plants.

Or if we had a reasonable process to build more nuclear plants. We don't, thanks to activists in the 1970s.

What we do have is a lot of people, such as yourself and RobertEarl, demanding we shut down all nuclear plants. Right now.

Which means more CO2 as we frack and burn. Right now.

In the future, we will probably invent some new technologies that will make renewables work for base-load. We aren't living in the future. We are living in now.

Abandoning new nuclear plants has produced lots of natural gas plants, releasing tons of CO2. We can't go back and point this out to people blocking new nuclear plants in the 1970s.

What we can do is avoid making the situation worse by replacing nuclear plants with more gas plants while we hope someone invents a technology to deal with the intermittent nature of wind and solar.