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Undertoad · 03-02-2006, 09:14 AM

After Three Mile Island, the nuclear energy market in the US dropped to zero. No more plants were ordered.

Then innovation, and safer designs arrived. Now one of those designs is being built. Where: in China.

I hope that the US can play a role in nuclear energy in the future. We did the heavy lifting of inventing it and coming up with a way to make it safe. Perhaps we should consider putting a few more plants up in the US so that we can take advantage. Perhaps we could just put new plants in place to replace older plants with designs that are less safe.

After all it seems like there's a good chance we'll need to generate energy in other ways to replace oil.

03-02-2006, 09:14 AM	#2
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	After Three Mile Island, the nuclear energy market in the US dropped to zero. No more plants were ordered. Then innovation, and safer designs arrived. Now one of those designs is being built. Where: in China. I hope that the US can play a role in nuclear energy in the future. We did the heavy lifting of inventing it and coming up with a way to make it safe. Perhaps we should consider putting a few more plants up in the US so that we can take advantage. Perhaps we could just put new plants in place to replace older plants with designs that are less safe. After all it seems like there's a good chance we'll need to generate energy in other ways to replace oil.