On 9/12/2012 7:08 PM, thunder wrote:
On Wed, 12 Sep 2012 18:42:19 -0400, Wayne.B wrote:



At some point environmental, safety and cost all morph into one big
issue. Today's nuclear plants are safe 99.99999% of the time. It
turns out that is not enough however. There are now hundreds of
square miles of land in Japan and the former USSR that are totally
uninhabitable. There are additional thousands of people who will die
prematurely, and/or have their quality of life severely impacted. Both
of those accidents are flukes of course, but they are the flukes that
prove Murphy's law.


There are 3rd and 4th generation reactors now out there that solve many
of those problems. I think we are going to see much more nuclear in the
next decade or two, smaller plants with less capital investment on the
front end.


Maybe even micro (relatively speaking) plants that can be easily
isolated in an emergency... spread around more.