{"id":2797,"date":"2009-06-10T18:12:54","date_gmt":"2009-06-11T01:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2009\/06\/10\/have-a-nice-nuke\/"},"modified":"2009-06-10T18:12:55","modified_gmt":"2009-06-11T01:12:55","slug":"have-a-nice-nuke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2009\/06\/10\/have-a-nice-nuke\/","title":{"rendered":"Have a Nice Nuke"},"content":{"rendered":"

have a nice nukeThe Democrats and the Obamadministration think it’s OK for Iran to enrich nuclear fuel for that country’s energy needs, yet the moratorium on new nuclear facilities for the US continues. Why is it OK for them and not OK for us?<\/p>\n

At least some members of the U.S. House and Senate are trying to get some traction for nuclear energy by leveraging the Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) myth.<\/p>\n

Via Planet Gore<\/a><\/p>\n

We Need 100 Nukes by 2030<\/a> [Carl Shockley]<\/p>\n

After fumbling over the Waxman-Markey initiative for several months, Republicans have finally hit their stride. Both House and Senate members are quickly falling behind the rallying cry, \u201c100 New Reactors by 2030.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI think global warming is a real problem but I don\u2019t think the solutions the Democrats are coming up with are going to accomplish anything,\u201d said Sen. Lamar Alexander (R., Tenn.), head of the Senate GOP caucus. \u201cThe only thing that\u2019s going to allow us to cut carbon emissions is clean nuclear energy. We built 100 reactors between 1970 and 1990. We can do the same thing now. If global warming is the inconvenient problem, then nuclear power is the inconvenient answer<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Alexander and three other Tennessee legislators were on hand Wednesday morning as Babcock & Wilcox introduced its new \u201cmPower\u201d 125-megawatt modular reactor that it will submit to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in 2011. The $750 million reactor will be built in a factor and shipped to the site by rail, where it would be completely buried underground and refuel only once every five years. \u201cEverything in this reactor would be made in America,\u201d said Republican Bob Corker, Tennessee\u2019s other senator.<\/p>\n

Congressman Zach Wamp (R., Tenn.) warned that the United States is falling behind other countries in nuclear technology. \u201cWhat we\u2019re talking about here isn\u2019t just a revival of the nuclear industry,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019re talking about an American industrial renaissance.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Power generation using conventional coal technology has been mathematically proven<\/a> to have little effect on AGW. We should continue to use coal powerplants. In addition, we should resume nuclear generation, as it is clearly a better and more efficient method of producing the energy our nation needs, regardless of whether it actually does anything to improve the environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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