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Politics : American Presidential Politics and foreign affairs
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To: TimF who wrote (47335)11/18/2010 6:21:07 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof  Read Replies (1) of 71588
 
Re: "I agree that currently, with today's prices for fuel, today's regulatory issues in the US, today's lack of a permanent storage facility for long term nuclear waste, and today's nuclear plant designs (meaning the designs that are common in actual large scale use today, not designs on paper or in small scale pilot plants that exist today), that nuclear can't compete with fossil fuels, or against hydropower."

Right.

I TOO also think that we need to move to FUTURE technologies in nuclear power designs... and quit wasting time and effort on our current antiquated reactor designs. (Thorium cycle would likely prove far safer and more cost-effective over the long run... and there are several designs out there for reactors which would be inherently 'meltdown proof'... that too should certainly drastically cut disaster insurance premiums.) But the (likely tremendous) very long-term expense of safe disposal is a tough nut to crack --- and one that, (I fear), has always been massively under-estimated.

As far as fossil fuels goes... the one thing about which I feel a high degree of confidence is that (mid-to-long-term) real costs will be ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE greater then today's cheap market prices.

So... best to be about the very difficult and time consuming and expensive business of adapting to inevitable changes.
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