Obama pushes nuclear energy

[Pat]

We heard it in the SOTU address, here is more,

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100131/ap_on_bi_ge/us_obama_nuclear;_ylt=AiKsJ.wYF7jVAlQ.zOApAmOyFz4D ;_ylu=X3oDMTJoYzdlbnZrBGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMTAwMTMxL3Vz X29iYW1hX251Y2xlYXIEY3BvcwMyBHBvcwM2BHNlYwN5bl90b3 Bfc3RvcnkEc2xrA29iYW1hcHVzaGVzbg--

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Obama singled out nuclear power in his State of the Union address, and his spending plan for the next budget year is expected to include billions of more dollars in federal guarantees for new nuclear reactors. This emphasis reflects both the political difficulties of passing a climate bill in an election year and a shift from his once cautious embrace of nuclear energy.

He's now calling for a new generation of nuclear power plants.

Now, let's hope that congress doesn't get in the way.

[Smurf-Herder]

We heard it in the SOTU address, here is more,

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100131/ap_on_bi_ge/us_obama_nuclear;_ylt=AiKsJ.wYF7jVAlQ.zOApAmOyFz4D ;_ylu=X3oDMTJoYzdlbnZrBGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMTAwMTMxL3Vz X29iYW1hX251Y2xlYXIEY3BvcwMyBHBvcwM2BHNlYwN5bl90b3 Bfc3RvcnkEc2xrA29iYW1hcHVzaGVzbg--

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Now, let's hope that congress doesn't get in the way.

Yeah, I saw that last night, he's asking for $54 billion in loan guarantees (triple the previous amounts); AND creating a commission on researching nuclear fuel recycling (like France does), to deal with the waste issue.

It almost sounds too good to be true. I sincerely hope they all follow through on this.

[Smurf-Herder]

Quite a change from before the STOU speech:

"Energy Secretary Steven Chu has been criticized for his slow rollout of $18.5 billion in loan guarantees to spur investment in new nuclear power plants, and the administration killed a Bush-era proposal to reprocess nuclear fuel."

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=9709897

[Pat]

Yeah, I saw that last night, he's asking for $54 billion in loan guarantees (triple the previous amounts); AND creating a commission on researching nuclear fuel recycling (like France does), to deal with the waste issue.

It almost sounds too good to be true. I sincerely hope they all follow through on this.
The French do it quite well.
http://www.heritage.org/press/commentary/ed010108d.cfm

[Moby]

I would love to see more nuclear power in America. I think the issues to over come are:

1. No one wants a nuke plant near them.
2. Transportation has to use electricity before we see major returns
3. We do have to transport the waste. Not just store it some place safe for 10,000+ years but get it into storage.

[steamedheat]

We heard it in the SOTU address, here is more,



Snip,


Now, let's hope that congress doesn't get in the way.

Hmm, I almost feel he actually read my note on nuclear power plants. (Chest swells with pride:D )

I want 300 built, 100 to each coast line. Hooked into the Grid to lower everybodies electric bills (by 70%), making our industries once again profitable globally, and stopping deaths due to exposure.

Lower costs to farmers, to bring down food prices. Setting us up to take advantage of electric transportation (a glass highway), thus relieving our oil dependency.

Next to each of these 300 plants we can build desaltination plants to pump fresh water far inland to baren states, for more agricultural growing, thus lowering food prices further. The piping canbe made of melted sand (like the glass highway). The salt canbe sold off to nations needing it for their people.

[steamedheat]

I would love to see more nuclear power in America. I think the issues to over come are:

1. No one wants a nuke plant near them.
2. Transportation has to use electricity before we see major returns
3. We do have to transport the waste. Not just store it some place safe for 10,000+ years but get it into storage.

1.There are plenty of coastal areas to construct nuke plants.
2.Addressed in glass highway.
3.Spent fuel should be reprocessed at each nuclear facility & never leave the sites. Only 1/3rd of spent fuel bundles is consumed over a years time. At each refuel only 1/3rd of fuel bundles are removed. Of the spent fuel bundles, only 1/3rd of the fuel has been changed in composition. That means 2/3rds can be reprocessed into new fuel bundles at the site, and the 1/3 stored.

[Moby]

[B][COLOR="DarkRed"]1.There are plenty of coastal areas to construct nuke plants.
Coastal property is way too expensive and in demand.

[steamedheat]

Coastal property is way too expensive and in demand.

True. Like building materials, it will never be cheaper than right now, so we must act quickly if we want all the benefits that nuclear power can give us.