Rod Speed wrote:
dpb wrote
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If the "greens" have any serious ideas of affecting CO2, we'll find out shortly as the present 20+ license
applications pending at the NRC wend their way thru...

Nope, they are completely irrelevant to the success or otherwise of those applications.

Not in any reasonable sense--to make up for the generation lost by
switching away from combustion it's going to take more than your
definition of green; hence, nuclear will be a major contributor to the
reduction in greenhouse gases, specifically CO, if there is going to be
any significant reduction (or even maintaining nearly the present level)
as there simply aren't going to be enough alternative generation sources
available in time.

You can say it isn't green if you want, but it's a nonfunctional
definition for accomplishing anything.

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