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His administration was before my time, but he always seemed like an earnest and levelheaded man.
by BuyMyBitcoins 4y ago
His administration was before my time, but he always seemed like an earnest and levelheaded man.
- pkaye 4y agoHe also personally repaired a Canadian nuclear reactor in meltdown. https://www.military.com/history/how-jimmy-carter-saved-canadian-nuclear-reactor-after-meltdown.html https://www.military.com/history/how-jimmy-carter-saved-cana...
- elevaet 4y agoWow what an interesting story. It's notable that he's still alive at age 99 despite being exposed to dangerously high levels of radiation in his 20s, and a history cancer in the family.
- AnimalMuppet 4y agoWoah. Repaired it, and had radioactive urine for the next six months. That's... wow. Words fail me.
- akiselev 4y agoHe spent those months navigating at night by dribbling just a little every few feet.
- buildbot 4y agoHe was also president during 3 mile island, and helped calm everyone by visiting: https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/nuclear-accident-at-three-mile-island https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/nuclear-accident...
- landemva 4y agoCarter basically stopped the nuclear energy industry by prohibiting reprocessing of used fuel. Without disposal or reprocessing, where does it go? https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/reaction/readings/rossin.html https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/reaction/read...
- Jedd 4y ago> Carter basically stopped the nuclear energy industry by prohibiting reprocessing of used fuel. Without disposal or reprocessing, where does it go? This seems like a stretch. From the article you linked: Ford initiated the policy a year before Carter signed the EO. While I'm sure some other countries adopted the position due to political pressure from the USA, it doesn't explain why the fission nuclear energy industry everywhere has failed to excel. The PBS article, written two decades ago, describes an event that's now ~45 years in our past -- but it's not clear why that policy hasn't since been upturned, or what / who is responsible for its continuation (other than the tritely obvious answer 'every USA administration since then').
- barry-cotter 4y ago> it doesn't explain why the fission nuclear energy industry everywhere has failed to excel. Isn’t French nuclear powering 70% of all their needs?
- SuoDuanDao 4y agoare they reprocessing spent fuel? That seemed to be the crux of the parent comment.
- Xylakant 4y agoThey have nearly half of the worlds reprocessing capacity in their plant in La Hague https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Hague_site https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Hague_site
- Schroedingersat 4y agoAnd how much energy does the fuel coming from that plant produce each year as a fraction of the whole?
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