combjelly,
Even after the Bush administration made building nuclear plants easier, there is no consensus. In fact, the alarmists are winning. So when Bush is out of office, they can change again. And it was the regulations in state of flux that inflicted the first blow to Shoreham nuclear plant.
One of the reasons I am partial to nuclear power was that I grew up near one. It was a sense of pride for everyone in the area. Pride in scientific and technological achievement.
There used to be time when people used to look forward to the future, what future would bring, what science would bring, how lives of people would improve because of, among other things what science, technology would bring, how industry would make things better, less expensive. No problem would go unsolved. That was before the doom and gloom group of Algores came on the stage.
Incidentally, EU made Slovakia decommission parts of that nuclear plant I lived near to as a condition for entry into EU, only to turn around a couple of years later and cut the cap on the greenhouse gas emissions for the country. Now, how is the country to make up the lost output, catch up with the standard of living in Western Europe or the US? Most of the fast growing countries ignore (China, India ignore or are not part of the Kyoto BS). The newly admitted EU countries are. So the question is to blow through the targets or cripple their economies, preventing their citizens from achieving higher standards of living...
Joe |
