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Section 6: International Subject: Climate Change Msg# 1178117
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YES Nuclear power advances have shown how spent nuclear fuel can be recycled, and reused to produce additional power. Also the death rates of other fuels are higher than for nuclear. Report titled: Fossil fuels are far deadlier than nuclear power Click Here
Problem seems to be mistaken political beliefs, as well as the extremely long time frames in building & bringing nuclear power plants on line. After the construction approval in 2012, of Southern Company's new Georgia Power nuclear plant, they've just now in October 2022 begun loading nuclear fuel into the plant. Click Here This plant in the only such new nuclear power plant being built in the US, and this current phase of construction is expected to power about a Half-million homes. More units are being planned to be built at this site, doubling its future output. In the field of nuclear power, new designs are also being tested, for smaller modular nuclear units. These efforts are being constructed by several competing manufacturers. |
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For reference, the above message is a reply to a message where: I'm definitely not in favor of shutting down fossil fuel energy plants in favor of inefficient wind or solar. As I've said before, that is just foolhardy. Anyone who thinks we can count on wind or solar exclusively is fooling themselves, and should not be listened to. (I actually think we should eliminate wind and solar altogether, but if private persons want to use it, that's fine. I just don't like governments mandating it). I've recently been looking into how we have essentially solved earlier problems of how to deal with spent atomic fuel cells, and am now more convinced than ever that atomic energy is the energy we should be using more and more. Clean, and safe. |
