On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 11:31:10 -0400, Keith Nuttle wrote:


For the billions of dollars and significant effort that the government
spent in the last 40 years killing and avoiding nuclear energy, we could
have had a recovery process and had no energy problem today. Yet the
government is continuing to bury its head in the sand and promoting the
gimmicky sources of electricity like windmills, and other fanciful ideas
that will not work in the long run.

Oh please, the government hasn't killed nuclear energy, the economics of
nuclear energy killed it. Nuclear energy, if you include the capital
costs, is expensive. However, with carbon sequestration and other "clean
coal" costs, nuclear energy is becoming cost competitive. You do know,
31 new nuclear plants are in the pipeline, don't you? Doesn't say much
for your theory that the government is killing nuclear energy, does it?

http://www.nrc.gov/reactors/new-lice...iles/expected-
new-rx-applications.pdf