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You know, if we hadn't had such a "Nukes are bad, m'kay" moment in the 70s, we wouldn't be limping along with so many old, past-their-prime plants now, and ther
by douche 11y ago
You know, if we hadn't had such a "Nukes are bad, m'kay" moment in the 70s, we wouldn't be limping along with so many old, past-their-prime plants now, and there'd have been more incentive to continue refining designs for nuclear power. What plants we have are less efficient than they could be, and are pushing up against their designed lifetimes.
Damn hippies
- Theodores 11y agoWrong. The Cold War was why we built the nucular power stations we did. The uranium in those tens of thousands of nucular weapons came from somewhere - nucular power plants. Electricity was a mere by-product. None of those power plants were viable without there being the aspect of the Cold War imperative. So it is the war-mongers and not the hippies to blame for whatever happened to nucular power.
- douche 11y agoYeah, the breeder reactors in the first generation were terrible and not good for much other than making A-bomb material. That doesn't really have anything to do with the dozens of nuke plants that were canceled in the 70s, at the height of the Cold War, and the virtual (and in some countries, legal) moratorium on new construction that was pushed by anti-nuclear activists. Well-intentioned people dedicated to saving the world made things worse us and held back technological progress at the same time.