[TheForge] Hellooooooo!

[Steve Smith]

There's also a question of competence. A screw up with a nuclear plant 
makes a much larger mess than other energy sources. We have several 
historical examples, which I realize plants will be designed to avoid. 
What kind of problems don't we know about yet?

Steve

craig.schaefer at verizon.net wrote:
> You have to weigh nasties.  A little nuclear waste or geopolitical disaster.
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> CraigS
> Gresham, OR
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>>From: Demon Buddha <osan at netlabs.net>
>>Date: Sat May 06 19:04:41 CDT 2006
>>To: Sponsored by ABANA <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
>>Subject: Re: [TheForge] Hellooooooo!
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>>Todd Rich wrote:
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>>>We need to build about 200 nuclear power plants across the country to 
>>>provide enough excess night time power to be able to produce that much 
>>>hydrogen.  Plus an infrastructure needs to be built to deliver the 
>>>hydrogen to the automobile fleet in this country.  It will take about 20 
>>>years to build that much, assuming unchallenged current regulations.  A 
>>>government mandated plan could probably be done in about 10 years. 
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>>	Paid by whom?  That's what I thought.
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>>>Legally challenged, it could be 50 or more years.
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>>	It would be challenged, and rightly so.  Nuclear is not a good long 
>>term solution, methinks.  The wastes are just too nasty.
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