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2016-12-23 Economy

A Nuclear America Can Be A Great America

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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-12-23 02:42|| || Front Page|| [11125 views ] Top

#1 ....more people died in a Oldsmobile Delmont 88 than 3-Mile Island.

Posted by Procopius2k 2016-12-23 08:04|| 2016-12-23 08:04|| Front Page Top

#2 ...more people died ~~in a Oldsmobile Delmont 88~~ under the Chappaquidick bridge than 3-Mile Island.

FIFY!

Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839 2016-12-23 09:00|| 2016-12-23 09:00|| Front Page Top

#3 Maybe - if we don't continue crony capitalist practices in redeveloping the nuclear power industry.

Posted by Glenmore 2016-12-23 09:09|| 2016-12-23 09:09|| Front Page Top

#4 Put more money into fusion research. Not the turkey known as ITER. But the small scale designs whether they are from MIT, Sandia Labs or any of the commercial projects. Partner with the UK, Japan, South Korea and the EU. The potential payoff is huge. If we can get D-T reactors on linefocus on the Proton-Boron 11 reaction cyclle. Has the potential to be direct to electricity with no need for turbines or waste. The current DOE fusion research is more about producing phd's than juice

Posted by Cheaderhead 2016-12-23 09:17|| 2016-12-23 09:17|| Front Page Top

#5 Please, please advance the battery technology along with the nuclear power. The TVA has not issued a license for a nuclear power plant in many decades...was ready to begin again a few years ago, but stopped by the idiot boy Obama.

Posted by Tennessee 2016-12-23 10:51|| 2016-12-23 10:51|| Front Page Top

#6 Battery tech is being pushed by Musk and his Tesla team.

Posted by rjschwarz 2016-12-23 12:48|| 2016-12-23 12:48|| Front Page Top

#7 The need is not specifically electric batteries but energy storage technology. For portability, it might turn out to be more effective to use nuclear energy to convert H, C & O into liquid hydrocarbon fuels (synthetic gasoline?) than to electricity stored in heavy and/or expensive and/or environmentally damaging batteries.

Posted by Glenmore 2016-12-23 15:09|| 2016-12-23 15:09|| Front Page Top

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