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Nuclear Power Dying a Slow Death
- SlipperySlope 7y agoAnd while we are on this topic, please kill fusion power research and spend those $billions elsewhere. The brain power is better used elsewhere too!
- deathOfYourMom 7y agoI'm in favor of nuclear power in desolate places. Nuclear plants shouldn't be situated near large population centers. Transmission lines should bring the power to large urban centers. Cities are often founded according to valuable geographic features. Important rivers, deep water ports, the coast lines in general. Nuclear power should reside far away from geography that civilization tends to value. If modern nuclear power is so progressive and incredible, new cooling methods should carve out better locations for plants. Keep them away from the water supply. Keep them upwind. Put them in the middle of nowhere. Stop begging to ruin every river, lake and water front. Nuclear power should pull its own innovative weight. If the electricity is so limitless, use some of it to power advanced solid state cooling systems that take advatage of electronic heat pumps and closed loop coolant systems in the middle of the desert. Place them on top of slag lagoons from strip mines. Situate them in places unused by human activity, and people won't be so quick to picket and erect political blockades. How many nuclear power plants could we fit in the Sahara desert? If political zones were not a factor, how far and how difficult might it be to transmit power from the Sahara to South Africa? Even if it were especially difficult, I'd estimate people would cheer such an idea.