re: President Biden just pledged to shut down 60% of America’s electric power (MSN)

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That's the most sensible answer and I don't even care if it has to be subsidized.

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We should subsidize it just like renewables, which are heavily subsidized to make them cost competitive.

Shut down all transmissions to California.

The rest of the nation should be fine.

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Shut down all transmissions to California.

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California is the lifeblood behind our national economy

This is stupid

There is zero environmental argument against the newest generation clean NG plants that holds up at all.

People don’t seem to realize why the Moscone and Harvey Milk shootings were so important.

Not that the politicians died but that Dan White being compelled to resign after being financially ruined flipped the control of the board of supervisors there from the same but lefty to the arse licking weirdos who have been flushing it down the toilet ever since.

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The reason we don’t have this everywhere now is because these crazies that want “clean energy” fought against nuclear years ago. And when you bring it up to them again as an option, they still think nuclear plants would be the built the same with the same technology as they were in the 1960s.

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Go to the reddest county in the reddest state in the US. Schedule a town hall meeting. When all of them Republican Voters show up inform them you are planning on building 2 nuclear reactors in their county. You might want to hire some armed guards first. No one, regardless of the political leanings, wants a Nuclear Power Plant in their backyard. The industry is to blame for the most part...we will climb a tree to skirt a requirement when we could stand on the ground and comply. Nuclear power in the United States has the best safety record of any industry in the nation and it ain't remotely close because the NRC is a TYRANT amongst regulatory agencies...and they have to be because of our propensity in the industry to circumvent regulations when we can comply easier and cheaper. The press convinced a bunch of Americans that incidents like 3 Mile Island indicated the industry was unsafe when 3 Mile Island and other incidents proved that the system worked to perfection. The same group of Americans who are convinced that they are in constant peril bought that tripe and here we are. It is people on both sides of the aisle who do not want a nuke in their back yard. Or a coal burner or a natural gas plant for that matter...the latter, though, are relatively small and unobtrusive so they do not get the same attention.

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nuclear is impossible to build now. Prohibitive regulation. It’s the obvious answer but it won’t happen

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Southern Company JUST put one on line in July of last year and another will be online by the end of next year. Regulatory restrictions in the industry are vastly over stated. The real and true road block is the public not wanting one in their backyard.

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This person works for the power company… personally never worked on a solar farm. Either way, we have plants we spent millions probably more on Scrubbers for the coal plants and now we want to get rid of them. Also was told Coal is regulated how much the companies can charge. Wind, solar, maybe gas are not.

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All power generated in the United States is price controlled by various entities at the state level. They face limited competition in exchange for that control because the market can not react fast enough for price hikes to impact the economy to the point that it would shut down.

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There's too much risk in nuclear

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If you far left enviros hadnt had your way in the 70s, climate change wouldnt be an issue right now.

We should have built dozens of nuclear plants across the country, your atmosphere would haver less CO2 today.

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You've just confirmed you don't know how any of this works

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A single unit typically generates 1 to 10 megawatts-electric.

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To put this in perspective, a single megawatt of electricity can power approximately 1,000 homes. That means these systems could provide up to 10,0000 homes with clean power—24 hours a day, 7 days a week—for 10 years without stopping!

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The U.S. Department of Energy is partnering with a number of microreactor developers to help bring these innovative designs to market.

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LINK

Youre doing a good job portraying the Dunning-Kruger Effect

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Scientists at the US government laboratory which developed the first atomic bomb say nuclear power plants smaller than a garden shed and able to power about 20,000 homes will be available within the next five years. The miniature reactors will be factory-sealed, absent of any weapon-grade materials, and also have no moving parts.

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Government just dumped a bunch of funds into pushing these things.