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Re: I agree with a lot of this, though there's also stuff that irks me. Legolas Send a noteboard - 19/04/2019 06:56:30 PM

View original postI thought it was because industry on the continent leans toward Germany. Seriously, though, hasn't northeastern France historically been the most industrial part of the country?

Yes, but still it's pretty obvious if you look at a map - most French reactors are either built near the coast, or very, very close to the borders with Belgium and Germany. That's not a coincidence - putting them there means fewer NIMBY voters whose support you might lose.



View original postExcept nuclear works and wind and solar power haven't proven very economic or reliable, not least because wind & sunshine are not constants in the way hydroelectric or nuclear energy are. And nuclear power is not necessarily synonymous with uranium. It might be possible to fiss( ? ) other materials (plutonium? hydrogen? ) for energy. At the very least, nuclear power gives us time to figure out renewable resources between now and whenever we do run out of uranium.

Yes, I agree, nuclear should remain part of the equation.
View original postAnyway, with fossil fuel reserves at an all time high, the idea of running out is a fairly specious argument, since we don't know how much fossil fuel or uranium is on the planet anyway. Push comes to shove, we can always put poor people on treadmills.

It's true that we have come a long way since the first panicky reports of running out in the 1970s... but it's not only about running out on a global level, it's also about where it's located and what that means for your geopolitical position. It's all fine and dandy as long as you can get your oil from the US or Canada and your uranium from Canada or Australia, but rather more dicey if you have to get it from places like Somalia (which apparently has huge uranium reserves). Both for the purchasing countries and for the producing country, if they don't have anything resembling safe labour and environmental standards.
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The Real Reason They Hate Nuclear Is Because It Means We Don't Need Renewables The Shrike - 18/04/2019 07:33:37 PM 902 Views
It would be even better if more widely adopted. LiterateDog - 18/04/2019 07:44:28 PM 510 Views
And according to Stan Lee, we will get superheroes out of it! *NM* Cannoli - 19/04/2019 03:55:21 AM 240 Views
Definitely agreed. The Shrike - 19/04/2019 01:08:14 PM 499 Views
I agree with a lot of this, though there's also stuff that irks me. Legolas - 18/04/2019 08:56:01 PM 531 Views
Re: I agree with a lot of this, though there's also stuff that irks me. Cannoli - 19/04/2019 03:53:24 AM 502 Views
Re: I agree with a lot of this, though there's also stuff that irks me. Legolas - 19/04/2019 06:56:30 PM 497 Views
You keep making points better than I could. I agree with your criticisms of the article. *NM* Ghavrel - 19/04/2019 10:07:10 AM 236 Views
True The Shrike - 19/04/2019 01:07:06 PM 507 Views
I'd say yes, but the devil is in the details... *NM* Legolas - 19/04/2019 06:57:07 PM 256 Views
Do you think the GND would have been proposed or even cooked up if the president was a Democrat ? AgentApple - 20/04/2019 05:04:47 PM 469 Views
I assume then there would've been a less half-baked plan, indeed. Legolas - 24/04/2019 06:20:52 PM 473 Views
I've never really connected the two... Jeordam - 18/04/2019 10:32:34 PM 504 Views
I never had much regard for that argument Cannoli - 19/04/2019 04:02:12 AM 513 Views
The real reason they hate solar and wind Roland00 - 19/04/2019 03:04:44 AM 488 Views
So as the nephew of nuclear power plant engineer, that means I'm the in-house expert & last word? *NM* Cannoli - 19/04/2019 04:08:45 AM 236 Views
You are the last word if we want to have a productive internet discussion Roland00 - 19/04/2019 04:18:08 AM 480 Views
They didn't mention the oil & coal industries. Cannoli - 19/04/2019 04:07:16 AM 519 Views
We still lack a long-term nuclear waste repository. Vodalus - 19/04/2019 08:10:23 AM 570 Views
No, we don't lack it. You pointed that out. Yucca Mountain is perfect. Tom - 23/04/2019 02:20:06 AM 471 Views
There's no political willpower to fund it. Until that changes we have no repository for n-waste. *NM* Vodalus - 23/04/2019 07:46:10 AM 256 Views
Doesn't matter what the "willpower" is. We have it The Shrike - 23/04/2019 07:18:27 PM 520 Views
The checkbooks. Kind of hard to do anything without someone having the “will” to pay for it. *NM* Dunstan - 23/04/2019 08:34:58 PM 230 Views
The Republicans aren't the enemy. They're the opposition... Roland00 - 23/04/2019 09:02:30 PM 471 Views
The facility was never completed. Vodalus - 23/04/2019 11:08:27 PM 528 Views
I don't think that it would take that long to complete. Dakaling - 24/04/2019 10:59:35 AM 566 Views
The other part of creating new nuclear facilities will probably take longer than this part. *NM* Roland00 - 24/04/2019 07:27:40 PM 227 Views
The Left wants to establish a direct connection between climate change and the evils of capitalism damookster - 20/04/2019 12:13:49 AM 465 Views
Perhaps it is the opposite? Roland00 - 20/04/2019 01:10:18 AM 484 Views
Perhaps not damookster - 20/04/2019 04:17:34 AM 475 Views
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