"Doug Kanter" wrote in message
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"Calif Bill" wrote in message
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We have a cure for the energy problem. NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS! But the
enviro's got the building of same, outlawed.

No knee-jerk reactions, OK? Forget Yucca Mountain.

As it stands now, we are unable to control nuclear waste. I did not say
"dispose of". I said "CONTROL", meaning assure that is secured against
misuse. When we can do that, then MAYBE we can build nuclear power plants
the was Starbucks builds coffee shops.


Why worry about the control of the waste? There are so many former soviet
union nukes out there to be bought or stolen. Iran, North Korea rogue states
have nuclear plants making good, non-waste weapons grade product, that the
security of the waste is not as critical anymore. And how much waste are
you talking about? It is not like the left over from mining, that take up
miles of land. We already have lots of waste up by Chuck, that is trying to
leach into the Columbia. We have to move a lot of that to Yucca Mt. no
matter what. They can only solidify so much of the ground around the waste
containers. We have to have oil for a lot of the products we use, so there
still will have to be petroleum pumped, but we could cut our usage by
probably 75% by going fission nuclear for the present time. This would
remove a lot of the middle eastern bargaining chips as well as a huge amount
of money to them. And think what happens to the manufacturing base in
China, if we get cheap power. We could pay our people more than the
Chinese, and still be competitive. Not the $100k a year for an assembly
line flunky that HK thinks they require, but they would have a living wage.