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If it was seen as a high priority, we could do it. They put people on the moon in the 60’s in less time than people claim it’d take to build a power plant today
by mwint 4y ago
If it was seen as a high priority, we could do it. They put people on the moon in the 60’s in less time than people claim it’d take to build a power plant today.
Ingredients for a quick transition to nuclear:
1. Gov’t must be willing to ignore NIMBY/BANANA people
2. Accept slightly more risk than zero
3. Aggressively poach people from countries with healthy nuclear programs and put them in charge of ours.
- azemetre 4y agoWhat does banana stand for? Searching, obviously, yields nothing fruitful.
- pfdietz 4y agoBuild Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anyone > nothing fruitful I see what you did there.
- pfdietz 4y agoThe Apollo program was achieving a technical result, not an economically competitive result. The systems produced by Apollo were unsustainably expensive. What you are proposing is, instead, to count on a centrally planned economic model to produce a competitive outcome. This is something the US is not very good at. It's also entirely unrealistic due to the scale of the activity that would be required.