re: #342 robdouth

I don’t understand this sentiment because it seems like one of the few areas where much of the Left and Right agree. We wouldn’t make 50’s and 60’s style reactors. There are new designs, they can reuse and recycle fuel until there is very little left by comparison to the older nuke plants. This is such a no brainer I don’t know why it’s not pushed. We need to stop the “anti-science” hard left that has freaked out about Yucca Mountain, and there wouldn’t even be an issue about AGW as a man caused phenomenon anymore, so there wouldn’t even be a reason to have an “anti-science” hard right in terms of “climate change.”

Don’t count on it. The only US company that can still make a reactor, Westinghouse, is technologically behind it’s foreign competitors by a longshot. Either we’re going to be building revised versions of 60s reactors put out by Westinghouse or we’re going to be paying the Japanese and Canadians to build our reactors for us.

We’ve fallen way, way behind.