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Build More Nuclear Power Plants, Bush Says
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| 6/22/05
| Susan Jones
Posted on 06/22/2005 9:56:33 AM PDT by Tumbleweed_Connection
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
Gasp!
The enviro-weenies probably have their shorts in a knot over this.
To: Tumbleweed_Connection
I REALLY hope they can get this going.
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posted on
06/22/2005 9:59:30 AM PDT
by
kharaku
(G3)
To: fatnotlazy
Actually there is no responsible environmentalist who could have a problem with Nuke plants, it's only morons without a scrap of scientific understanding who go willy over the notion of nuclear power. Nuclear is a perfect environmentally sensative form of power generation, and I've never met anyone R or D who knew what they were talking about and opposed it, only paranoid weenies.
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posted on
06/22/2005 10:08:06 AM PDT
by
kharaku
(G3)
To: Tumbleweed_Connection
Hmmm ... cut back funding for "safe" alternative energies like solar and encourage spending more money on "dangerous" alternative energies like nuclear. Ridding ourselves of dependence on foreign oil is a *top* priority ... huge ... especially as China enters the competition for demand. But is this the "best" way to go about doing it? Three Mile Island? Chernobyl? I'd take a "solar disaster" over a "nuclear disaster" any day. We just need the next great evolutionary jump in solar technology.
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posted on
06/22/2005 10:11:12 AM PDT
by
so_real
("The Congress of the United States recommends and approves the Holy Bible for use in all schools.")
To: Tumbleweed_Connection
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posted on
06/22/2005 10:11:54 AM PDT
by
sharktrager
(My life is like a box of chocolates, but someone took all the good ones.)
To: so_real
Chernobyl was caused by an intentional melt down, 3 mile island was only a partial meltdown, and modern Nuclear plants, you know ones built between the last one we built more than 30 years ago and now, are scads safer. It is a safe highly efficient source of energy. You haven't even named a nuclear disaster most people born after Reagan was elected would recall. That should tell you about the incidence of catastophy.
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posted on
06/22/2005 10:18:45 AM PDT
by
kharaku
(G3)
To: so_real
What solar power? What are you talking about? How many MWh are produced by solar generators? Are you one of those misinformed dopes that thinks solar power is viable? Maybe you should build a power plant that runs on harmonious feeelings, or from moonbeams. Dar.
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posted on
06/22/2005 10:21:07 AM PDT
by
mallardx
To: kharaku; All
Plus the fact that French (even they get it right once awhile) uses nuclear power..
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posted on
06/22/2005 10:24:30 AM PDT
by
KevinDavis
(the space/future belongs to the eagles, the earth/past to the groundhogs)
To: kharaku
My only objection to nuclear power is that taxpayers are expected to subsidize them. Private insurance companies will not insure them against catastrophic events, and if they did, they would charge premiums so high as to make Nuclear power more expensive than coal, oil, etc... Which is why nuclear power companies are insured by govt. bodies backed up by our tax dollars against meltdown.
Nuclear power, in a free market, is not economically viable yet.
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posted on
06/22/2005 10:26:37 AM PDT
by
Petruk2
(petruk)
To: Tumbleweed_Connection
Pebble bed reactors look like they might be very safe, as well as far less expensive to build (because they are scalable, and can be built from mass-produced parts). Here's a link to a Wired Magazine article about the Chinese program to build pebble bed reactors:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.09/china.html
To: kharaku
To: Tumbleweed_Connection
I like the idea of nuclear/desalination plants off the coasts.
You solve the problems of both electricity & water with one plant.
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posted on
06/22/2005 10:34:02 AM PDT
by
kellynla
(U.S.M.C. 1st Battalion,5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Div. Viet Nam 69&70 Semper Fi)
To: Tumbleweed_Connection
"It is time for this country to start building nuclear power plants again," he said to applause at the Calvert Cliffs plant. I agree with him. Nuclear power is one method to reduce the reliance on Middle Eastern and OPEC oil.
To: Tumbleweed_Connection
We tax payers have paid for power generation for eon's yet availability goes down and prices come up. One think to look at near/at our military bases is the nuclear ships the enter port. Insteand of turning off the reactors, leave them on and power the local cities.
One carrier in San Diego could almost power the entire city and since we have paid for the construction of this mobil nuclear plant, we can use it at home.
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posted on
06/22/2005 10:36:31 AM PDT
by
edcoil
(Reality doesn't say much - doesn't need too)
To: mallardx
It's pointless trying to please the "environmentalists" regarding power generation. They oppose everything.
Want to put up a wind farm. You can't, because they're ugly and might hurt birds.
How about solar? Only small scale, like on the roof of your house.
Forget about going for efficiency with huge solar farms in the desert. They're ugly, and will undoubtedly harm some endangered species.
Nukes? Are you kidding?
Coal? Nope.
Hydro? Nope. No more dams.
If I've left out anything, it doesn't matter because they oppose it too.
To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA
To: kharaku
modern Nuclear plants, you know ones built between the last one we built more than 30 years ago and now, are scads safer.
Of that I have no doubt. But Uranium-238 still has a half-life of 4+ billion years (4.5, I believe) making "safe" a relative term -- all equipment eventually ages, and where people are involved accidents do happen.
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posted on
06/22/2005 10:43:34 AM PDT
by
so_real
("The Congress of the United States recommends and approves the Holy Bible for use in all schools.")
To: newgeezer
NO WAY!!!!!!!
I'm joining the green party.
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posted on
06/22/2005 10:44:27 AM PDT
by
biblewonk
(Yes I think I am a bible worshipper.)
To: mallardx
Are you one of those misinformed dopes that thinks solar power is viable? Maybe you should build a power plant that runs on harmonious feeelings, or from moonbeams. Dar.
Are you always so rude when you first-post someone? Feel free to address me when you've grown up and know how to speak like an adult. Until then, children should be seen and not heard.
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posted on
06/22/2005 10:44:45 AM PDT
by
so_real
("The Congress of the United States recommends and approves the Holy Bible for use in all schools.")
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