Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
I see the Majority of those posting on this list don't have a friggin clue as the the permit process for any powerplant much less a nucer! This thing has been in the works for 10 plus years probably closer to 18....More than likely BO's clowns figured they had milked the cow long enough, better let them have it to get some votes!!!
We so easily gloss over that tremendous waste problem. We can build lots of landfills, pave them over, and turn them into shopping malls and high-schools, but we can't exactly do that with, you know, radioactive waste.
Jamming it in a mountain and pushing the problem off on future generations is a bit--irresponsible. Anyone else think we should solve that problem, or at least do something better than jam it in holes for a few thousand years, before we go mad-hatter with fission energy?
In that respect the US, Canada, etc. are in a lucky position, unlike European countries or Japan. You have lots of useless land over there where you can store the radioactive crap, ideally land without ground water risks.
By most measures, nuclear power is about as costly as coal, and much less expensive than almost all other energy sources except hydro. It is somewhere between 3 and 5 times cheaper than solar. Nuclear is far less deadly to workers and cleaner than coal.
I was happy to see this decision and it is long overdue.
This is Barack pandering for votes. He has no intention of allowing this to proceed beyond the planning phase.
President Obama has long said he supports the concept of nuclear energy & building new nuclear power plants. It's one of the very few things on which I agree with him. The sticking point for him seems to be the storage, shipping and disposal of spent fuel. Has something happened recently that addresses that issue, or will this, as you say, be killed before it passes the planning stages, and after it has generated the positive reaction he wants?
You know what I like about Obama the most? He's an American first and foremost and he's a patriot.
He is for the American worker, and he's for America. Unlike so many of the agenda driven republicans that have really hurt this country.
He's for the American worker? Then why did he kill the Keystone pipeline, which would have meant work for hundreds, possibly thousands, of Americans, and lead to lower energy costs for Americans? Why has he rammed "Obamacare" down the throats of American businesses, severely lessening their ability to hire American workers? Why does he keep our corporate tax rate the highest in the world, making it more costly for companies to operate in America where they could hire American workers?
This is good news. The green energy industry continues to fail so we need reliable power generation with nuke power.
Please register to post and access all features of our very popular forum. It is free and quick. Over $68,000 in prizes has already been given out to active posters on our forum. Additional giveaways are planned.
Detailed information about all U.S. cities, counties, and zip codes on our site: City-data.com.
Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
