 masbury says: 1. no willing investors (it's all gov't money); 2. spreads nuclear weapons technology (eg, S Korea); 3. makes fat terrorism targets; 4. waste problem unsolved 1. Because the government will not let private funding take place involving nuclear material on the scale of a nuke plant. 2. Nuke energy tech is in no way the same as nuke weapon tech. In addition, how to make a nuke isn't as mystifying as people think. You need to slam one bit of radioactive material into another at a specific speed. You can learn to make nukes by going through a handful of college courses. Hell you can make a hydrogen bomb with no nuclear materials if your so inclined (involves kinda duct tape and silly putty type construction, but theoretically you can get low yield nuclear fusion weapons. Stopping the the spread of nuclear technology is like trying to tell people not ... pop for Drone Also, not carbon neutral. "Clean" nuke power is a total myth. You've got to get the uranium from someplace and that someplace is from mining. The mining is energy intensive and mostly diesel. Excellent point! Carbon's being wasted before the plant even starts up! We can do better. Carbon will always be wasted. Zero carbon power sources are just as much as a "clean" nuke plant (until someone gets in gear and figures out the problems with a stable fusion reactor). Solar, wind, tidal, and geothermal (my fav), all require a level of industrialization that utilizes carbon in their construction or a power from a device that burns or was constructed with a carbon materials. Hell even us stupid flesh bags emit carbon. Sure. My point is just that mining - compared, for instance, to geothermal - is higher up on the destructivity scale. Geothermal is interesting, isn't it? We sit on top of a massive heat source. Exxon has the lions share of that market (geothermal). Oil barons continue to bend us over the barrel. It's not true, that nuclear weapons and plants are complete different technic! The most nuclear plants produce even that plutonium, that's needed for bombs! Without nuclear plants are bombs nearly impossible! But as I understand it, weapons-grade plutonium is many times more sophisticated than most countries are capable of producing (Iran, for instance). |
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