Why Nuclear Energy Is On The Verge Of A Renaissance

[Hamartia Antidote]

Is that Washington or New York we are talking about?

Massachusetts...the state with "smart" people.

 

[VCheng]

Don't worry our magical sun will power our cars with only a 1cm sq solar panel stuck on the bumper next to the "Successfully green" bumper sticker.

So no more night driving down the strip looking for chicks?

Massachusetts...the state with "smart" people.

...... and massholes.

 

[FuturePAF]

Ah! The Greens in my state are all patting themselves on the back at all the evil nuclear power and fossil fuel plants they have closed to help the world..so now we import power from Canadian nuclear powerplants...awesome logic there!

NIMBYs (and the petrochemical industry) will also block any new plants with lawsuits after lawsuits, and considering how long it takes to build these plants it’s politically unfeasible to build these plants unless done under some kind of national security imperative like the Highway act of 1956.

I always wondered why they just couldn’t build more plants at locations that already have a lot of plants and are in less densely populated areas like the Hanford site up in Washington on the Columbia River.

Massachusetts...the state with "smart" people.

Yeah, the Nimbys are the real “wicked” smart people when it comes to progress.

 

[kingQamaR]

Europe is reliant on Russian energy as it is cheap and reliable. You could find other sources, but then you'd be uncompetitive. The EU has absolutely no intention of switching from Russian energy, they are just going to wait for the next crisis to distract everyone. The increased cost of other energy sources would lead to mass unemployment across Europe. Even the Americans have no plans to switch away from cheap Russian Uranium fuel pellets for their power stations, because any alternative would be cripplingly expensive. The maths is simply... Russia has cheap energy.

 

[zartosht]

NIMBYs (and the petrochemical industry) will also block any new plants with lawsuits after lawsuits, and considering how long it takes to build these plants it’s politically unfeasible to build these plants unless done under some kind of national security imperative like the Highway act of 1956.

I always wondered why they just couldn’t build more plants at locations that already have a lot of plants and are in less densely populated areas like the Hanford site up in Washington on the Columbia River.


Yeah, the Nimbys are the real “wicked” smart people when it comes to progress.

This is a damning condemnation on the western government system.

They are extremely inefficient, very short sided where they will trade national interests for their own political interests.

And are hopelessly useless when it comes to major projects of national importance.

Western politicians only think about the next election, while real nationalist governements think of advancing their states long term.

The democrats in the US and the liberals of canada have completely shredded the social fabrics of their country beyond repair. They have seperated people by tribal lines and thrown them agaibst each other.
To the point where many mainstream voices are predicting a 2nd civil war in the US near future.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

Yeah, the Nimbys are the real “wicked” smart people when it comes to progress.

The Green people are very good at closing things but not good at offering replacements.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

To the point where many mainstream voices are predicting a 2nd civil war in the US near future.

The only people predicting Civil War were the blinded Trump haters.

One said numerous economic signs were showing the US was close to a Civil War. However after Biden was elected the author reversed the prognosis and said all these numerous signs apparently went away and we are back to being safe again.

That's just an unreal pivot...and I'm not even a Republican. Credibility ZERO for the extreme left-wingers.

 

[kingQamaR]

The Green people are very good at closing things but not good at offering replacements.

I've never understood why Germany was so determined to make themselves dependent on Russia for energy. If you look at Merkel's successors intentions when he came into office, close the Nuclear plants, close the coal mines (making a lot of Germans unemployed) it makes no sense unless you want to make yourself some type of middleman between Russia and an EU dependent on the goodwill of Russian energy suppliers

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

I've never understood why Germany was so determined to make themselves dependent on Russia for energy. If you look at Merkel's successors intentions when he came into office, close the Nuclear plants, close the coal mines (making a lot of Germans unemployed) it makes no sense unless you want to make yourself some type of middleman between Russia and an EU dependent on the goodwill of Russian energy suppliers

I thought Germany went solar crazy and had them along highways and on all houses.

2020 This green guy unhappy they haven't shut everything down. Guess he isn't laughing now.

I guess not

 

[kingQamaR]

The greens are always against burning gas or coal, unless it comes from Russia. They need to face the same scrutiny they demand of others

 

[Meengla]

Why Nuclear Energy Is On The Verge Of A Renaissance​

For some, nuclear power may conjure images of mushroom clouds or bring back memories of disturbing nuclear disasters like Chernobyle and Fukushima. But despite public fear around nuclear power, the technology has proved to be an emission-free, reliable way to produce large amounts of electricity on a small footprint. As a result, sentiments about the technology are beginning to change.

Both the U.S. government and private companies including X Energy, NuScale and, Bill Gates-backed, TerraPower are pouring money into developing, what they say will be smaller, safer nuclear reactors. CNBC visited Idaho National Laboratory to see the Marvel microreactor firsthand and learn what such developments could mean for the future of nuclear power.

After humankind discovered nuclear fission, the first applied use was the atomic bomb. The study of fission for electricity production came later.

In December 1953, President Dwight D. Eisenhower gave his fateful Atoms for Peace speech, an impassioned plea to reconstitute the power of the atomic bombs dropped in World War II for a more noble cause.

“Against the dark background of the atomic bomb, the United States does not wish merely to present strength, but also the desire and the hope for peace,” Eisenhower told the United Nations.

Almost 70 years later, the tension between those end uses still underlies the space today.

From the 1950s through the 1970s, the United States dramatically increased its nuclear energy generation.

But the Three Mile Island accident in 1979 and Chornobyl meltdown in 1986 changed the landscape, spurring fear that nuclear energy could not be controlled safely.

Since the 1980s, nuclear energy capacity and generation in the U.S. has largely stayed flat. Today, the country’s fleet of nuclear power reactors produces only 19% of the country’s electricity, according to the government’s Energy Information Administration.

In more recent times, the Fukushima Daiichi accident in Japan in 2011 — and earlier this year the capture of nuclear power plants in Ukraine by invading Russian forces — have added to public concerns.

But despite its fraught origin story and the psychological effect of high-profile accidents, nuclear energy is getting a second look.

That’s largely because nuclear energy is clean energy, releasing no greenhouse gasses. Meanwhile, the world is seeing more of the effects of climate change, including rising global temperatures, increased pollution, wildfires, and more intense and deadly storms.

“We need to change course — now — and end our senseless and suicidal war against nature,” Antonio Guterres, the secretary-general of the United Nations, said in Stockholm on Thursday.

“There is one thing that threatens all our progress. The climate crisis. Unless we act now, we will not have a livable planet,” Guterres said. “Scientists recently reported that there is a 50-50 chance that we could temporarily breach the Paris Agreement limit of 1.5 degrees Celsius in the next five years.”

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Speaking of nuclear energy, it is also my understanding that humanity is in a race against time on global warming and nuclear energy, despite its risks, is a risk worth taking as soon as possible, before it would be too late. All the renewable energy ideas might one day materialize but for now they don't offer solutions in timely manner.

We might see nuclear plants going bad here and there but we are already seeing the climate change and its affects every day. Time is nigh to think beyond potential dangers to see the existing dangers!