User profile: theBike45

Far from running short, most plants have alllocated more than enough for decomissioning and when Yucca Mountain was suspended, there was $30 billion already in place for waste storage.
Thos efigures DO NOT depdend upon the continued existence of the operating company, although it would be a very strange thing to see the owner (a utility) go out of business. Scare tactics like these are nothing new form the folks at Grrenpeace, a thoroughly unreliablesource about nulear power, which they have helped block for 35 years, causing the excessive carbon emissions. If carbon cuases global warming, then thank Greenpeace - they're the ones who caused it. I might also wonder why anyone thinks that nuclear spent fuel , that has been stoerwd for 50 years, would suddenly be seen as a danger. When did that come about? And exactly what are these folks afraid of? It's only radioactive material. You'd think it was something we don't know anything about. Not mentioned, I notice , is the concept advanced by a California professor a few weeks ago to build a hybrid fusion/fission reactor that not only could produce energy from those "spent" fuel rods, but also completely eliminate them. Poof! No more nuclear waste. Why isn't anyone enthusiastic about that, if they are so frightened of radioactive" "waste" (there really is no such thing as nuclear waste), as pointed out recently.

I just love it when a politician like Reid claims to be on top of an issue (like energy) and then makes a really dumb statement, as he does by claiming that Nevada's solar energy resources will eliminate our oil dependency. Someone please tell Reid the Fool that our vehicles run on petroleum fuels, not electricity, at least not anytime soon. He can build all the solar electric plants he wants, and it will have zero effect on the need for oil or gas prices. Just exactly how dumb is Sen Reid?
As for wind - it totally sucks - it cannot meet peak demand and thus has to be dupplicated with power generation that can, essentially having a side effect that doubles it real costs. Reid has no ability to discriminate between alternative power technologies that are pure crap and uselss (like wind, solar PV) and those that are very promising , like solar thermal. But even solar thermal cannot provide all the pwoer - 30 days a year the Southwestern deserts are cloudy and that mean zero electricity. We need to start thinking in terms of the best new technology out there, or almost out there - gas Pebble bed Modular nuclear reactors, about to be commercialized next year by Westinghouse and Mitsubishi - they are completely safe, very efficient and cheap. And they don't
require water resources - the use compressed helium for cooling and helium cannot be made radioactive, so no problem if a leak develops (unlikely). They are small, require little space, and can be located close to the center of demand in cities.