Our 'leaders' are concerned about global warming. There are more important matters

[leftwinger]

They are frantic about now, with this term end closing in, they need to make as much money as quickly as possible. They are concerned it may all implode Jan., 2017.

I was always under impression Congress has the money? cannot spend unless boner/ryan put it out?

 

[Skull Pilot]

Honestly, they have been making predictions and ignoring their own warnings. Meanwhile, there are more important matters to worry about that are crying for attention

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Not concerned enough to ask Americans to cut back usage as during WWII rationing.

Not concerned enough to revamp and expand out nuclear power production either

Kinda hard after Chernobyl and Fukushima.

Sorry but you are wrong

Chernobyl was the result of a faulty design and not one person died of radiation after the tsunami in Japan.

Besides new reactor technology has all but made reactors like Fukishima obsolete

New molten salt reactor designs do not need the huge volumes of water therefore can be buried underground which not only makes them safer but far more secure as well and they only need refueling every 2 decades or so

The Big Idea - Small Town Nukes - National Geographic Magazine

I love how all the supposedly science loving liberals are still living in the past when it comes to nuclear power

Ok, all the US reactors currently on hold are on hold because...

Love how people think Nat Geo and Wiki are good sources. As opposed to oh I dunno, a nuclear industry periodical.

"# The country's 100 nuclear reactors produced 798 billion kWh in 2014, over 19% of total electrical output. There are now 99 units operable (98.7 GWe) and five under construction.

# Following a 30-year period in which few new reactors were built, it is expected that six new units may come on line by 2020, four of those resulting from 16 licence applications made since mid-2007 to build 24 new nuclear reactors.

However, lower gas prices since 2009 have put the economic viability of some existing reactors and proposed projects in doubt.

Almost all the US nuclear generating capacity comes from reactors built between 1967 and 1990. Until 2013 there had been no new construction starts since 1977, largely because for a number of years gas generation was considered more economically attractive and because construction schedules during the 1970s and 1980s had frequently been extended by opposition, compounded by heightened safety fears following the Three Mile Island accident in 1979.

Ten other nuclear plants (13 reactors) are considered (at the start of 2014) to be at risk of closure, all but one of these in the northeast of the country, in deregulated states. The factors giving rise to uncertainty are high costs with low power prices, regulatory issues, and local concerns with safety and reliability.

However, based largely on low natural gas prices in Texas compounded by the Fukushima accident, in April 2011, NRG decided to pull out of the project and write off its $331 million investment in it."
Nuclear Power in the USA

etc etc

The fact is our nuclear program is undeniably behind the times as the only reactors that can currently get regulatory permissions are the exact same reactors that we started building decades ago and no newer safer cleaner more secure designs will not be considered at all