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