Most of the arguments against nuclear have little basis in fact but the reality is that nuclear has become a bad word. Germany is in the process of sunsetting all of it's nuclear plants. Even France, which generates over 70% of it's electricity from nuclear, will be reducing it's reliance on nuclear power to 50% over the next 15 years. I don't see the trend reversing itself. In a rational world, we would be building nuclear power plants, lots of nuclear power plants. But we don't live in a rational world as people are afraid of things they don't understand.
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Originally Posted by JMintzer
Problem is, whenever you mention Nuclear, people think of "The China Syndrome"...
Or The disaster in Japan... Or how to get rid of the spent rods...
What they don't realize is that the newer Generation 4 Reactors are much safer, much more efficient, can use the old spent rods for fuel and the waste only lasts a hundred or so years, rather than millennia, like the older reactors...
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