thunder wrote:
On Tue, 26 Jun 2007 07:08:42 -0500, John H. wrote:


Three Mile Island is the typical liberal response. How long ago was
that? How many folks were killed? Do you seriously believe the
technology hasn't improved since then?

The technology has improved considerably, pebble bed reactors, for example, but the bureaucrats that
make decisions haven't improved. The Three Mile Island event happened in 1979, around the same time
that studies of Yucca Mountain were started. Yucca Mountain isn't expected to be in use until @ 2017, at
a cost of somewhere between $50-100 billion. It's capacity is expected to be 70,000 metric tons of
waste. We have already generated @ 60,000 metric tons of nuclear waste. So, basically, Yucca
Mountain will be full before it ever becomes usable, but hey, let's all just jump on the nuclear bandwagon.

Whine all you want about "typical liberal responses", but it was economics that kept nuclear reactors
from being built, economics as in cheap and plentiful coal. Nuclear power is still expensive.




I'm ok with nuclear power plants if there is trustworthy civilian
oversight of the construction and operation, and if the nuclear waste
will be stored only in red states such as Texas, Alabama, and
Mississippi, the places I never willingly visit.

We don't live that far from a nuke plant. I figure when it goes up, I'll
be an even more glowing personality.