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PamW

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5. Try reading the WHOLE article.
Sun Nov 3, 2013, 07:03 PM
Nov 2013

The Integral Fast Reactor that Argonne designed has solved ALL the outstanding problems.

The reactor is inherently safe, it produces short-lived waste, it is proliferation resistant.

The Integral Fast Reactor wasn't just a theory; it ACTUALLY OPERATED at the Argonne-West site at the Idaho National Engineering Lab.

As Dr. Till describes, the safety tests were done on an ACTUAL RUNNING REACTOR.

It wasn't just a theory or calculation that says the IFR is safe; but EXPERIMENT

To a scientist, like myself; the experiment is the definitive answer.

You are misinformed that there are other technologies that can do the job. No less than the National Academy of Science and Engineering has said that in order for the grid to be stable, non-dispatchable technologies like wind, solar, and other renewables, can be AT MOST about 20% of generation capacity.

That's what the 4 signatories are also saying. They explicitly say that solar and wind are "not enough"

The good thing about science is that it is true, whether or not you believe in it.
--Neil deGrasse Tyson

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