“Now the real problem is managing the wastes and breeding more fuel.”
Interesting choice of words.
If only there were a way of capturing all those extra neutrons and making fuel grade Uranium from more common ore. We could call it a “Breeder reactor”.
Nah. It will probably be decades until we could do that.
Like negative 7 decades.
There is no scientific reason not to use nuclear power. As you pointed out, the French have been doing it for 70 years. (They sell power to Germany.)
And if the French can do it….
The roadblocks are 90% political and 10% engineering.
Nuclear waste can be dealt with if we give American engineers a chance to attack the problem. But with no new activity going on, we can’t solve the problems.
Spending billions on a waste storage project in Nevada and then letting a corrupt politician kill the project was clearly the wrong way to go.
BTW, Nevada, I’d like that money back.
There has been a subset of the more radical leftists that has been fighting nuclear power since the ’70’s. More recently, this now expanded subset has raised their sights and have included virtually every traditional method of energy production, not to mention virtually every pillar of Western civilization. Their motives can be argued. But I suspect that attack on energy production is merely a single front in their campaign. But their focus on any particular aspect of energy production is just a tactic and, if that tactic fails, they will shift tactics. But the attack will continue in another guise… Read more »
It is my hope that the effort going on now to found colleges and other academic institutions that are independent of the Left’s influence will in time provide a foundation from which to discredit and eventually overthrow the captured academia that provides the basis for the lies and nonsense of the Left.