Every nuclear explosion since 1945

[Autumnlicious]

You're full of crap. PWRs currently used wouldn't pay for their damned selves if the US government stopped subsidizing them. And the industry won't invest in Gen 4.

So we're stuck with aging Gen 3 and Gen 2 infrastructure that is incredibly expensive to maintain and remove. That produces highly toxic waste.

Hardly a deal.

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And also, you never addressed the fact that the evaluations for two other sites for nuclear waste storage were halted before they could yield anything. Which sort of blows holes in your framing of Nevadans as ignorant not-in-my-backyard types -- they were singled out. And they have every right to oppose being used as a waste storage center.

You'll have to convince them first they're not being screwed. Good luck with that/

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Also, your argument for "people wanting new reactors" is crap. Fukushima possessed aging, unsafe reactors. But it was profitable enough.

GE still sells Gen 2 BWR/PWR designs. The same ones used as above.

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The MSR guys at Xerox Parc mentioned that the reactor could use thorium or spent fuel. From our older reactors. Which would be better than letting it mound up in storage tanks along the Great Lakes.