Re: Solving the generation ship curse

On Oct 3, 1:50 pm, lal_truckee <lal_truc...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

BTW, I wonder how that "deadliness of Pu" mis-information became so
widespread?

Gee, do you think the anti-nuclear/environmental activists had
anything to do with that? On the topic of nuclear power the media
has been giving them a free ride for 30 years, without any critical
analysis applied to their press releases.

NPR even interviewed a rep from the "Union of Concerned Scientists" as
if he were an unbiased commentator on nuclear power a month or two
ago. Good grief, that organization more or less got its start as a
post-Vietnam anti-nuclear agitator.

As fas as I can tell, after the USA got out of Vietnam, the activists
were addicted to having a powerful cause to which all their emotions
were tied and a bunch of them jumped on anti-nuclearism without
applying any critical thought to the issue. Unfortunately, the
timing of TMI meant that they got a media boost and free ride.

It didn't help that the construction of so many nuclear power plants
seemed to be either poorly planned or mismanaged such that huge budget
overruns were common. Yet, even with about a 2X budget overrun,
Austin, TX's share of the South Texas Nuclear Project supplies its
most affordable and most stably priced electricity today. To bad we
don't have a lot more of that stuff.

Now days, as far as I can tell, environmentalists don't even bother to
give it a thought (granting them the benefit of the doubt on other
topics) they just accept the anti-nuclear position as a given, and
their leadership is too stubborn to admit how wrong they were.

Ten nuclear power plants per year since 1978 would mean that all of
the electricity in the USA would come from non-carbon emitting
sources. Our transportation system would still be emitting carbon,
but there would be a much larger, robust and dependable source of
electricity available for adapting to transportation. Plus, the
reduction in power plant oil consumption would mean lower oil prices
and probably (refinery capacity may negate this) lower gasoline
prices.

Basically, the anti-nuclear activists, the environmentalists, caused
global warming with their short sighted idiocy.
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