With today's contractors? Good luck with that.
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Yes! More of this please!
Nuclear is expensive and dangerous to life. It should be avoided going forward.
Still way less deaths compared to what fossil fuels already did to us (not to mention the rest of nature), like cancer, mining related nastiness including transport, etc. Also there is more radioactive pollution from coal than nuclear plants (bcs of the volume & exhausts dumped into the air).
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I understand the need for nuclear. We HAVE to stop using carbon emitting forms of energy.
But I have never supported nuclear in the United States. Time and time and time again, history shows that corporations will water down the regulations around an industry. To the point of collapse. The problem is, when nuclear goes bad, its REALLY bad.
We can't even get our fucking TRAINS to their destination without greed derailing them.
how many fucking oil spills have we had because of lax safety? remember the Deepwater Horizon oil spill? that was due to lax safety regulations, all in the name of profit.
Please, tell me:
Why in the flying fuck should I trust the regulations around nuclear energy to hold?
Whatever you say, I'm not going to believe you. Not until the fucking lawyers of the corporations stop writing the laws for the congressmen to sign without reading or understanding.
What the FUCK is going to stop 'big nuclear' from re-writing regulations?
I want the regulations around nuclear to be so tight, no capitalist will want to operate under it. I want several rubber bands and a vice around the balls of whoever is running it.
I even think maybe corporations can't be trusted with it, and all nuclear energy should fall exclusively under the management of the DoD.
I’d push back that US regulatory bodies are strong and successful in some areas and that nuclear power doesn’t necessarily need to fall under regulatory capture. Consider the FAA - not perfect but does a pretty damn good job of keeping the skies safe.
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I want to do more research in Thorium reactors. They are much safer than uranium.
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This is great.
We had tried this in SC in expanding one of our sites from one to three. It did not go terribly well.