tk421;1081668 wrote:It's about fucking time. I don't see how we're supposed to get off oil without nuclear. Of course, the crazies are already planning to sue to stop the building. Fucking stupid short sighted idiots. Probably the NIMBYs as well. I would have no problem living right next to a nuclear plant, hell give me a job as well.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/nrc-approves-construction-of-new-nuclear-power-reactors-in-georgia/2012/02/09/gIQA36wv1Q_story.html?tid=pm_business_pop

If this is too "political" then you can move it, I just didn't want to wait the week for the thread to get approved.

Pick6;1081809 wrote:i was under the impression there are already nuclear reactors built in the U.S. right or wrong?

tk421;1081668 wrote:It's about ****ing time. I don't see how we're supposed to get off oil without nuclear. Of course, the crazies are already planning to sue to stop the building. ****ing stupid short sighted idiots. Probably the NIMBYs as well. I would have no problem living right next to a nuclear plant, hell give me a job as well.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/nrc-approves-construction-of-new-nuclear-power-reactors-in-georgia/2012/02/09/gIQA36wv1Q_story.html?tid=pm_business_pop

If this is too "political" then you can move it, I just didn't want to wait the week for the thread to get approved.

Pick6;1081809 wrote:i was under the impression there are already nuclear reactors built in the U.S. right or wrong?

brutus161;1081874 wrote:As someone that usually makes his living on a nuclear powered submarine, I fully support nuclear energy. It is safe, and once the initial cost of building it is over, relatively cheap to continue to operate.

Devils Advocate;1081876 wrote:You should move right next to it in Georgia, and help support the cause!

thavoice;1082025 wrote:I am totally against it.

If we learned anything from The Simpsons, it is that nuclear power can be nasty stuff.


I do support monorails though in each city for mass transit.

mono= 1
rail = rail.

brutus161;1081874 wrote:As someone that usually makes his living on a nuclear powered submarine, I fully support nuclear energy. It is safe, and once the initial cost of building it is over, relatively cheap to continue to operate.

sjmvsfscs08;1081916 wrote:Yeah my best friend's dad and my ex-girlfriend's dad worked in the same department at Davis-Besse and made $80,000 ten years ago (I have no idea what they make now, I would assume it's higher). And another best friend's dad was their boss and made like $150-200k. GREAT JOBS for any region.

Not to mention, Oak Harbor HS has benefitted significantly from Davis-Besse.

With all of the natural gas that we're going to be pumping out of the ground in Ohio, it's tough for me to say that nuclear power is the way to go right now though. I'm not sure it'll be cost-effective at this point in time. Maybe I'm wrong though.

Why can't we just build 2-3 reactors on the site of Davis-Besse or elsewhere?

QuakerOats;1082008 wrote:Nuclear can and should be an important part of overall energy supply. China, among others, is moving ahead with nuclear at a rapid pace. {Tip -- keep an eye on Strateco Resources, Canadian uraniuam exploration company -- RSC.TO}.

jmog;1081891 wrote:There hasn't been a new one built since the 70s. That is the problem. The same thing with oil refineries, the left wing crazies block building of new facilities like this in fear of hurting an ant colony somewhere.

Similarly the last oil refinery in the US was build in 1993.

Nuclear Power Plants create GREAT jobs. I almost took a job once as an engineer at a Nuclear plant, they typically pay easily 30% higher than a similar job elsewhere. I would have had to move out of state in the end and I wasn't up for that.

I Wear Pants;1082765 wrote:The refineries thing isn't the same. There aren't new refineries because the oil companies have found it to be uneconomical to build new ones. The added production capacity they would give wouldn't be able to be used because of the whole peak oil thing. If I remember where I read the article explaining that a bit better I'll link it.

TL;DR: It's too expensive for oil companies to build new refineries that will never or only for a short time be fully needed, the cost/benefit analysis doesn't work out.