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![]() ![]() Section 4: President & Congress Subject: Small modular nuclear power units Msg# 1178405
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Very interesting, and worth developing. Sorry it took a while to get back to you. There was a glitch in my software and I'm just now seeing messages from the last week. ![]() |
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For reference, the above message is a reply to a message where: From earlier postings: I like Bill Gates efforts to push Nuclear Power efforts, with his TerraPower support. Warren Buffett is also supporting this effort. Still experimental but seems a VG idea. It's a smaller modular version of nuclear power that could be adapted to serving smaller areas, cutting down on the larger electric grid requirements. And basically claimed to be carbon free power production. it would be great if there's wider public acceptance of nuclear power. Folks don't generally know how nuclear plants have sterling records for consistently running, 24 hrs per day -- extremely reliable -- low down times for refueling -- miniscule amounts of waste -- far less land used -- no emissions of CO2 or anything else -- can operate for 80 years. Wind mills and solar panels produce huge amounts of waste, need replacing every 20 years, produce only intermittent power -- require huge land commitments while operating, -- huge volumes of waste upon retirement -- practically overcoming landfills. YES "trashing the planet" |