Spending for health care

[sugarpop]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Nukes take many years to get from "lets build it", to bring it on line. During the entire process the regulatory powers are constantly changing the rules. Even after the final plan has all the necessary approvals and construction begins, they keep changing the rules, in many cases requiring the contractor to rip out work completed to accommodate those changes or redesign things that hook to the changes.

This has been the rule, with no exceptions, since they've been building them.

France has been successful with nukes by standardizing one design and let them build as many as they wanted, all alike. That way you know what you're building and how much it will cost, up front.

Then maybe we should follow their example. Oh wait! We can't! We hate the French!

[xoxoxoBruce]

There is still the problem of nuke waste, where to store it.

Of course we couldn't put it where we did all those bomb tests, and won't be safe for a million years anyway.

[sugarpop]

I would rather spend the money on alternative, green technologies than on nuclear power plants. It takes too long to build them, and there is a very real risk that goes along with it. Plus, it's way expensive to build them. I think developing newer, cleaner technologies will help create a LOT more jobs (even an industry boom, much like the computer boom), can be executed a LOT faster, and the risk is negligible.

[TGRR]

Originally Posted by sugarpop

I would rather spend the money on alternative, green technologies than on nuclear power plants.

Like solar? You know, where the process used to make the panels creates a shitload of horrible chemicals?

[TGRR]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

There is still the problem of nuke waste, where to store it.

Of course we couldn't put it where we did all those bomb tests, and won't be safe for a million years anyway.

You mix it with sand, fuse the sand into glass, and store it in caves in the Arizona mountains.

End of fucking story.

Problem is, once they agree on a place, half of the NRC has worked itself out of a job...so they'll keep putting it in 25 year barrels and stacking them up.