it's a simple idea:
build enough new nuclear power plants per state to provide FREE POWER to all US citizens
-it would be a massive jobs program
-it would essentially be like giving everyone FREE 'GAS' to power an electric car thus killing the gas car industry
voila...problem solved
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you want a nuclear plant next to your house?
and do you have a way to safely dispose of nuclear waste?
i'll wait.
I want a hundred nuclear power plants next to my house, actually I want to work inside of them. I miss looking into the Reactor pool, the Head freshly removed from the Reactor, they have begun the fuel shuffle, every 24 months they replace a small percentage of the fuel and shuffle the rest. They fill the reactor cavity, I think I have my terms right, they fill the reactor cavity or swimming pool with water, water with Boron and some other chemicals. Water being H2O is a natural neutron absorber, the natural element Boron (which only comes from turkey and the mojave desert and is used to make synthetic fibers). Boron and Hydrogen are both Neutron absorbers (one reason why H2O in the atmosphere is the number one green house gas). They fill the cavity with water to shield us from radiation, remove a small percentage of fuel after 24 months, shuffle the rest, and while they do this I have stared down into the reactor rods, growing a beautiful fluorescent blue. Its like they become transparent. Unbelievable is the only thing I can say.
Spent fuel, you could leave it on site, we have spent fuel on the beach where Kelly Slater surfs at Old Man's and Trestles. The spent fuel has been there ever since they shut down unit 1 of SONGS. It was in the spent fuel pool but Nuclear Reactors are operating 20 years beyond the original 20 year design. Every Nuclear site holds a minimum of 20 years of fuel in spent fuel pools.
Of course we could recycle the spent nuclear fuel, in the process of recycling we will create electricity a second time from the same fuel, after the recycling we can then use the reprocessed fuel in a reactor to make more electricity, a third time with the same fuel.
After six years of using the same fuel I am unsure if we can reprocess it a fourth time, of course if you put the 94% democrat scientist on the job to recycle spent nuclear reactor fuel they would come up with a way to recycle the fuel a hundred times. Remember they are the smartest scientist in the world.
After a point in time we would have to get rid of the waste. As of today, all the nuclear reactor fuel that is now spent nuclear waste, this is from the first reactor built to now, all the waste from every single reactor would fit inside a football field, put that foot ball field at the bottom of an ocean or a deep lake, or even the bottom of a giant pool of water and we will never have to worry.
We have the design, it will be mass produced like model T's. Build the industry here, we can no longer machine 50 ton pieces of steel, we shut down our heavy industry. You want jobs, lead the world in Nuclear reactor construction. As it is now we are buying replacement parts that suck from Italy. The design is proven and being built by Westinghouse in China. Build it here, One thousand reactors right on top of cities.
Get rid of taxes, the lawsuits, we have the regulations that are proven to work, the NRC is very effective in commercial nuclear power plants.
10% tax across the nation, do whatever it takes to have a 1000% of the electricity we need all from Nuclear power.. We should be selling electricity to Canada. As it is we buy electricity from Canada.
This will never happen, why, because that would require that the USA be the best nation in the world and the Liberals will never allow us to be the best. They read too much Chomsky and Zinn.
