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Yukishiro1
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Registered: 2002-9-20 23:52:57
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President McCains energy policy
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Didn't read past the first post but nuclear energy is pretty green.
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Clackdor
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Registered: 2001-9-21 12:10:52
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I hate being on the same side of an issue as Yuki.
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Sansfear
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Registered: 2008-8-31 05:04:52
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Tych2 posted:
How about we just store it someplace safe until we figure out how to cheaply blast it into space?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yucca_Mountain
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Moe_Nox
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Registered: 2007-2-4 12:17:56
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While it is a contentious debate on what the definition of green is and if nuclear energy falls into that category, I definitely agree that we need more of this now.
Its tragic that we stalled on reactors for 3+ decades. Definitely played to the Bush big oil friends. Glad to see its moving forward.
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Yukishiro1
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Clackdor posted:
I hate being on the same side of an issue as Yuki.
I forget what it was that I did that evidentally pwned you but I seem to recall it had something to do with llamas. 
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Sansfear
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Registered: 2008-8-31 05:04:52
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It is about as green as it gets except for wind/solar, which are not able to produce electricity at nearly the same consistency and output.
And considering that it would be replacing coal plants, which are among the dirtiest, switching to nuclear is a no-brainer.
We produce about 20% of our electricity with nuclear. France does ~80%.
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Ashmaele
Title: Pastor of Muppets
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Registered: 2002-1-15 08:30:50
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The krauts are planning to shut all of their nuke plants down. What will they use to light their country I wonder?
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Yukishiro1
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States that get a large % of power from nuclear tend to be strong top-down central government states like france and japan. The problem with nuclear power is the costs are localized rather than dispersed so there is a bigger NIMBY element. Nuclear power is way, way safer than coal in terms of overall economic damage, but coal plants don't arouse the same reactions because the pollution is diffuse over both time and space.
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Sansfear
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Ashmaele posted:
The krauts are planning to shut all of their nuke plants down. What will they use to light their country I wonder?
Grecian peasants.
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Sin_of_Onin
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Registered: 2005-6-29 08:21:12
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Ashmaele posted:
The krauts are planning to shut all of their nuke plants down. What will they use to light their country I wonder?
Buy it from France?
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