[BOBTHENAILER]

Good news from the nuke industry. They have figured out how to tweak more and more power out of the existing nukes.

However, I sure don't see any new ones coming on line any time soon, and that, my FRiend is a crying shame. The ever increasing power production from relatively non-polluting gas fired turbines accounts for better than 30% of total US power output, I think. For better or worse, as long as the supply/demand natural gas problem exists, no other power source can severely mitigate any huge price increases in NG. Fuel oil can be switched to in the NE, but only in the NE.

[MD_Willington_1976]

Making more power is great, but the downfall is that the existing transmission system may not be able to handle the extra power. There will be a huge need for more transmission systems, I am in favour of more transmission, more nuclear power, and more research in the nuclear power industry.