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Alan Medsker's avatar

My passion is to help people, and protect the planet. If you share that, then I would think you'd want to work to resolve and/or mitigate the issues you seem to feel are showstoppers for nuclear, instead of just declaring that they are showstoppers. Without nuclear, we are going to burn a shitload more FF going forward. I think the consequences of that outweigh, by orders of magnitude, even the worse case nuclear disaster.

I'm sorry I don't inspire confidence, but I would still encourage you to look critically at all of the issues, including and especially those that renewable sources present. We need to use proven technology, now, in addition to developing and deploying new and unproven ones, to make the difference that needs to be made.

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bupkus231's avatar

"Without nuclear, we are going to burn a shitload more FF going forward. "

And how much are we going to burn before any of this new capacity nuclear comes online? This is one of the issues I have with your bossyerism - you ignore the timelines involved, both in development and in dealing with the current "leftovers".

I would encourage YOU to look more critically at these issues, as well as whatever issues you think you know a lot about. I already feel I know a lot more than you do - I just don't think I have all the answers ( while ignoring or downplaying "inconvenient" bits ).

Do you mind telling us where your "expertise" comes from? Are you a nuclear power engineer? Or any kinda technical person? I'm a retired software engineer - I know I don't know everything about many issues ( hell, I don't even know software anymore ). But the main thing I know is that anyone who claims a problem is "simple" and all that is required to solve said problem is sufficient "passion", is nothing but a fool.

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