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2007-07-31 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by Bobby 2007-07-31 06:49|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 pollution free? man those things emit water vapor... and that's a greenhouse gas, too.

Posted by eLarson 2007-07-31 07:33|| http://larsonian.blogspot.com]">[http://larsonian.blogspot.com] 2007-07-31 07:33|| Front Page Top

#2 Are you still breathing, Eric? Emitting water vapor, are ya?

I exhale into a mask that sequesters the CO2 and collects and condenses the water vapor for shipment to thirsty poor people in Saudi Arabia.

Posted by Bobby 2007-07-31 08:16|| 2007-07-31 08:16|| Front Page Top

#3 Good news! It's a small step towards energy independence. We need to develop our nuclear industry. Would like to see a distributed system of more and smaller failsafe reactors. "Then we can tell the oil crazies to pound sand." Amen to that.

Posted by JohnQC 2007-07-31 09:46|| 2007-07-31 09:46|| Front Page Top

#4 So you figure it's online by, what, 2050?

Posted by tu3031 2007-07-31 09:56|| 2007-07-31 09:56|| Front Page Top

#5 The TVA board is going to vote on Watts Bar Unit 2 today or tomorrow. Its most probably a go. Engineering will start almost immediately.

Posted by BrerRabbit 2007-07-31 12:55|| 2007-07-31 12:55|| Front Page Top

#6 Thank W's administration for quietly making the approval automatic for sites already approved for nuclear plants and for rolling the construction and operating licenses into a single pre-construction process. Much tougher for the moonbats to litigate these things into extinction now.

Posted by AzCat 2007-07-31 14:05|| 2007-07-31 14:05|| Front Page Top

#7 Yeah, AzCat, I know of several GA Power (actually, Southern Nuclear Co.) plants that are just adding additional reactors than building new plants on new land. Pretty good to hear.

And, on the failsafe issue...we should discuss w/ the Japanese. They just went through a massive earthquake and "emitted" some "radioactive" water (all the systems shut down like they were supposed to). Pretty good considering it was a 6.something out of a 7 (on their earthquake scale).

Posted by BA 2007-07-31 14:42|| 2007-07-31 14:42|| Front Page Top

#8 Heck BA, I'm sure dad wouldn't mind a shiny new nuke out on the back 40. If anyone's looking to site one they should probably give him a call. ;)

Posted by AzCat 2007-07-31 15:09|| 2007-07-31 15:09|| Front Page Top

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