Wednesday, May 5, 2021

ICYMI -- May 5, 2021

May 5, 2021: this is really quite humorous. For the archives. 

On the day, New York states shuts down the Indian Point nuclear plant, the Biden administration floats the idea of subsidies for nuclear plants. LOL. 
Nuclear plants don't need subsidies: they need regulatory relief (which they will never get); and, acceptance by the general public (which they will never get, either). 
The Biden administration is talking to the Democrat base: unions, which would build the nuclear plants. 
But it will take ten years for the first spade of dirt to turn for a greenfield project even if there was a "shovel-ready" project on the books today. Anyone who thinks the natural gas industry feels threatened by nuclear energy is an idiot. 
Environmentalists who won't accept transmission lines through Vermont and won't accept buried pipelines to carry natural gas from Pennsylvania to New Jersey certainly aren't going to fall for that nuclear energy talk. LOL. Where would all that radioactive waste be buried? At sea? Which Japan favors.

May 3, 2021: Indian Point to shut downISO NY link here.  

See this post for current thoughts

6 comments:

  1. In a different world, where nuke power is ok and is major source of energy... What do you do with all that waste?

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    1. You do what the Japanese do: dump it in the ocean, a little bit at a time.

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  2. they tried to Make a Monument for H. Reid in NV for the disposal of Nuke. Spent Zillions $$$ then quit, the whole Nuke testing ground area is Hot, so why not plant it there. spend $$ so we have Technology to reuse it.. Better then those damn ugly windmills in the prairie. don

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    1. The irony is that the mainstream media takes Joe Biden's nuclear energy comment seriously. Had Trump said this it would have been declared dead before the day was over.

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  3. And does that work? Honestly dont know. My idea has always been to launch it into space on trajectory that takes it out of the Solar System

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    1. The Japanese apparently think it works. And, no, launching if off earth won't work either.

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