| The flow of energy has always been important to | | | | regulations have made the cost of construction almost |
| advanced civilization. The ancient Egyptians used | | | | not worth it. The ROI of a nuclear power plant could |
| people power. They used elephants to move things | | | | take as long 150 years. This is so unfortunate seeing |
| and even in battle. The water wheel was used as | | | | how great Nuclear power is and how clean it can be |
| early as 4000 B.C. as power. Steam Engines are | | | | when handled correctly. For this reason in the past |
| much newer. Animals, water and many other | | | | three decades no new permits have been granted |
| improvised methods allowed for the making of | | | | and we continue to have a large percentage of our |
| machines. Simplifying life, from farming to water pumps | | | | power coming from fossil fuels which is a problem for |
| for mills, etc. By freeing up the time needed to sustain | | | | air quality and long term it has many issues such as |
| life, mankind is able to use that extra time to increase | | | | acid rain. Battell is fixing this problem with clean burning |
| his flow of thought and thus coming up with other | | | | coal. Imagine having all nuclear power where you turn it |
| inventions and devises. Now, fast forward to modern | | | | on, monitor it and it just sits there and produces |
| times where we often take for granted our electricity, | | | | energy? We no longer lead the world in Nuclear |
| until of course; it is shut off by a black out.What we | | | | Energy, now in the age of International Terrorism we |
| see as the ultimate hardship other third world countries | | | | are afraid that if we build Nuclear Power then they |
| do not have at all. And in places like Baghdad only for | | | | could become a target. This is not proper thinking in the |
| three hours a day and they are thankful for that. We | | | | day and age of radar guidance SAM sites, automatic |
| should not forget the gifts of Tesla and Entrepreneur | | | | sensors and back-up systems. We can defend |
| Westinghouse for the Hydropower and for free | | | | Nuclear Power Plants from any type of attack. And |
| enterprise, which funded the beginnings of what, we | | | | generally the newer plants will be put in the middle of |
| now take for granted every time we flick a switch. | | | | nowhere, thus lessoning the risks even more.Now then |
| We all felt the affect of the recent Black out of the | | | | how many people will breath polluted air if we do not |
| Northeast Regional Power Grid, now we realize that | | | | have a continued mix of these nuclear plants |
| we need to upgrade the transmission lines through out | | | | contributing to the grid. And is the grid safe any way, |
| all the grids. SCARDA the real time computer system | | | | seeing as we already had one blackout, which was |
| saw the problem but nearly all the defensive options | | | | purely a failure. Iran, N. Korea, Pakistan, India, Argentina, |
| include mean shutting down parts of the gird, power to | | | | Armenia, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China Red, |
| millions of people, which is a hard choice to make, | | | | Taiwan, Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, Hungary, |
| although if not covered in a timely manner the | | | | France, South Korea, Lithuania, Mexico, Netherlands, |
| cascading would occur. We also saw the rolling | | | | Romania, Russia, Slovenia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, |
| blackouts in California and the vulnerability of getting | | | | Ukraine, UK and USA all have nuclear power. France is |
| the grids energy to the Los Angeles basin where | | | | at 68% derived from nuclear. Spain 60%, Sweden |
| Southern California inhabits over 16 million people.The | | | | 65%, Ukraine 73%, UK 81%. Are we crazy? Why are |
| newest pebble reactors are easy to build and manage | | | | we using so little nuclear? Because we do not have |
| and have extremely high out put considering their small | | | | neighbors yelling at us next door that have to breath |
| size, perfect for islands set down wind from | | | | our pollution and also because we have little in the way |
| populations. Unfortunately the Three-mile Island and | | | | of population compared to land mass. But Nuclear only |
| Chernople incident make populations feel | | | | makes sense. |
| uncomfortable with Nuclear. Therefore the increased | | | | |