Sooner or later we've got to go green anyway. We might as well do it while we still have time and fossil fuels in reserve. I don't want to wait for it to become a Greek model where everybody saw the end coming but no one had the balls to step on the brake.

I think US should develop nuclear industry, or it would be left behind by various other countries, such as Russia in this regard.

Today the development in nuclear science have taken a huge step for ward since three mile island disaster.

In Norway there is this experimental reactor

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoriu..._nuclear_power

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Getting there, mostly French companies, EDF operate most of the stuff, GEC Alstom make reactors usually. I hear the Chinese are getting in on the market too, probably with the new reactors that are planned in the next five or so years, but it'll probably still be mainly French lead, they've got a good hold of the western european market, such as it is.

I'm keeping an eye on thorium power.
If it sounds too good to be true it usually is, but when it comes to thorium things are actually being made.

Too bad hippies can't differentiate between the age of Chernobyl and last gen reactors.

I think that classical low enrichment reactors with fast neutron breeders is the way, with slow shift to the later (ie the BN series, existing BN800 and future BN1200).

GREEN ENERGY IS MADE FROM PEOPLE! :o

We have this joke by technofascists that all humanitarian sciences people should be transformed into natural gas.

The human races track record suggests that you may be slightly disappointed also Mad Max needs the oil wars to even exist.:D

Just build more nuke plants. With the latest generation of reactors IIRC a single fuel load can keep the running for 50+ years. Waste admittedly would still be a problem but I say do what we should've done and shoved it deep, way deep, like go to the tallest mountain and drill to the very bottom of it deep in the Rockies. Do that and the stuff would never get out.

We already have such a site building in Nevada. If storing nuclear waste at a place as remote, as desolate, as geologically stable as Yucca Mountain, threatens the health and safety of millions of Americans, then there is no safe place to store it.

The only reason it's not completed now is opposition from the NIMBYs in Nevada. Being such staunch environmentalists, I'm sure they'd cheer wildly if Hoover Dam was dismantled to allow the Colorado River to run free again and Vegas went dark. :D

This could only improve things in Vegas... :yep:

Try blackjack during a blackout. You'll never go back to backgammon. :O:

http://blog.caesars.com/las-vegas//w...hour2013_1.jpg

Forgot about Yucca Mountain. That place is pretty much apocalypse proof and probably the safest place in the world to keep the waste at.

we love our blackouts...literally!