Wes wrote:
Larry Jaques wrote:

Due to the timing, I was wondering "Is this the Left's reply to the
skeptics' bringing out the CO2 scandals and ruining their Globular
Swarming scam?" but it appears to be real. I can't help but wonder if
they would have caught it far earlier if the Greenies hadn't nearly
forced nukes out of existence.

I have a feeling that there is a lot of pressure to keep running old nuke plants due to
the lack of new ones coming on line.

Wes
--
"Additionally as a security officer, I carry a gun to protect
government officials but my life isn't worth protecting at home
in their eyes." Dick Anthony Heller

That is one of the reasons. Westinghouse has a nice design in a new
unit. The problem is that the left has demonized nukes for so long and
made it damn near impossible to build new ones that they have to wring
the guts out of the existing units.

Now if some of the fools out there would repeal the ban on reprocessing
fuel that Carter signed and get a few new plants started the energy
problems (as far as electricity) would be taken care of in many areas,
and be far cleaner than ANY other generation technology to boot.

Reprocess a lot of the current waste fuel in this country and the price
of operation would drop considerably. By the time you actually processed
it down to true waste the remainder from one reactor the end waste would
fit into a 55 gallon drum and have less radiation than ambient background.

I love the folks who point out past spills and accidents as if they are
based on current designs. Considering that the newest plant operating in
the US is running a design that is almost 40 years old. (Watts Bar 1-
Came on line in 1996 but construction began in 1973!!!)

Personally I would love one of the mini-vault design units that are on
the drawing boards. A complete self controlled unit that is roughly the
size of a mini-van that gets buried in the ground and runs 7-10 years
without any human intervention. (Toshiba 4S and Hyperion)

They have on both sites about how the fact that they are buried and use
VERY low grade fuel makes them poor terrorist targets. The anti-nukes
say that a terrorist could dig one up and make a bomb. The easy solution
to this is to install the unit in the middle of a neighbor hood of avid
soap opera and reality show viewers and connect up a signal that says
someone is tampering with the power for days of our lives, dallas, ricky
lake, american idol or whatever the current shows are...






--
Steve W.