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Advances in Nuclear Energy; Safe, Clean and Reliable
The newest pebble reactors are easy to build
and manage and have extremely high out put considering their small size,
perfect for islands set down wind from populations. Unfortunately the
Three-mile Island and Chernobyl incident make populations feel uncomfortable
with Nuclear. Therefore the increased regulations have made the cost of
construction almost not worth it. The ROI of a nuclear power plant could
take as long 150 years. This is so unfortunate seeing how great Nuclear
power is and how clean it can be when handled correctly. For this reason in
the past three decades no new permits have been granted and we continue to
have a large percentage of our power coming from fossil fuels which is a
problem for air quality and long term it has many issues such as acid rain.
Imagine having all nuclear power where you
turn it on, monitor it and it just sits there and produces energy? We no
longer lead the world in Nuclear Energy, now in the age of International
Terrorism we are afraid that if we build Nuclear Power then they could
become a target. This is not proper thinking in the day and age of radar
guidance SAM sites, automatic sensors and back-up systems. We can defend
Nuclear Power Plants from any type of attack. And generally the newer plants
will be put in the middle of nowhere, thus lessoning the risks even more.
Now then how many people will breath polluted air if we do not have a
continued mix of these nuclear plants contributing to the grid. And is the
grid safe any way, seeing as we already had one blackout, which was purely a
failure.
Iran, N. Korea, Pakistan, India, Argentina,
Armenia, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China Red, Taiwan, Czech
Republic, Finland, Germany, Hungary, France, South Korea, Lithuania, Mexico,
Netherlands, Romania, Russia, Slovenia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Ukraine, UK
and USA all have nuclear power. France is at 68% derived from nuclear. Spain
60%, Sweden 65%, Ukraine 73%, UK 81%; Are we crazy? Why are we using so
little nuclear? Because we do not have neighbors yelling at us next door
that have to breath our pollution and also because we have little in the way
of population compared to land mass. But Nuclear only makes sense. Countries
have often thought of over producing to export to nearby countries and the
USA has only 20% of it’s energy coming from Nuclear, it ought to be 80% and
we ought to be producing enough to light up all of the modern countries of
Central and North America. We should be producing and exporting our extra,
this would mean energy would be cheaper and we would all have higher
standards of living and better quality of life and why not? What if we
produced 125% of demand? The nuclear option is a viable one. Think about.
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