"Then get the gov't out of the way and let an energy dense, cheaper, alternative compete with hydro-carbons.. We have had Thorium and Molten Salt Reactor tech for decades",
No... the government has had that tech. You didn't build that by yourself, and we can't even build nukes without government handouts despite ? 50 years of trying. Your babbling sounds good on paper, but the world doesn't work that way in real life. Thorium won't happen here without the government.
Looks like another news outlet has noticed that the Vogtle Nuclear Power plant, currently under construction in Georgia, is the recipient of federal loan guarantees some 15 times larger than the widely trumpeted Solyndra bankruptcy. And yes, Vogtle is turning into a boondoggle. So the Christian Science Monitor became the latest major pub to carry the story.(see below)
climatecrocks.com
The disaster insurance for nuclear power plants in the United States is currently underwritten by the federal government, Cooper says. Without that safeguard, “nuclear power is neither affordable nor worth the risk. If the owners and operators of nuclear reactors had to face the full liability of a Fukushima-style nuclear accident or go head-to-head with alternatives in a truly competitive marketplace, unfettered by subsidies, no one would have built a nuclear reactor in the past, no one would build one today, and anyone who owns a reactor would exit the nuclear business as quickly as possible.”
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