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America Must, Can, And Should Renew Its
Nuclear Energy Dominance

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Posted By: Hazymac, 2/9/2025 7:41:07 AM

The loudly announced policy of the new Trump Administration is for the US to regain global “energy dominance.” Most of us would first think, “drill Baby, drill,” so that we can increase our exports of liquified natural gas (LNG). However, there is another energy source that the new administration should encourage, and that is nuclear power. But if the public thinks that means that American citizens working for American companies can now build a complete nuclear power plant either in the US or abroad, they should think again—we can’t. Will future reactor sales go to Russia or China instead? Americans invented the nuclear reactor and, for decades following World War II,

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Reply 1 - Posted by: franq 2/9/2025 10:03:38 AM (No. 1892702)
It's just common sense. That's why leftists hate the idea.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: BrightonCO 2/9/2025 10:23:43 AM (No. 1892713)
Yes! Include breeder reactors and keep at it with fusion research. Here in Colorado we have a site at Platteville that had a reactor, but it failed due to regulation. Perfect place. Boulder has a site at Valmont. Thorium machines?
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Reply 3 - Posted by: DiegoDude 2/9/2025 10:44:29 AM (No. 1892730)
Nuke technology has come a long way. Get the Nuclear Regulatory Commission out of the way, start using small reactors, which do not pose the risk of large reactors (dirty bomb waste).
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Historybuff 2/9/2025 11:00:38 AM (No. 1892740)
France gets 78% of its electricity from nuclear power plants. Why are the French so much smarter. When Angela Merkel shut down the German nuclear plants she admitted that French engineers were smarter then the German engineers.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: NorthernDog 2/9/2025 11:10:08 AM (No. 1892746)
Jane Fonda's 'The China Syndrome' and Chernobyl in Ukraine helped demonize nuclear power. That was 40 years ago, but a lot of people still think nuclear power plants can explode at any moment.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: cor-vet 2/9/2025 11:41:13 AM (No. 1892759)
Small nuclear power plants power our navy's submarines and aircraft carriers safely, so there's no reason small, but bigger than ship size, power plants couldn't handle a lot of our civilian power needs.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: DVC 2/9/2025 11:54:59 AM (No. 1892771)
This requires regeneration of our 'spent' fuel reprocessing capability, shut down and destroyed by the worthless, harmful Jimmy Carter.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: Historybuff 2/9/2025 12:19:55 PM (No. 1892790)
#7. What creates the most nuclear waste? Not reactors medical waste. Should we eliminate that? A nuclear aircraft carrier refuels ever 25 Years. People who rail against nuclear power have no clue.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: bpl40 2/10/2025 7:47:14 AM (No. 1893121)
IN the long run what is required is a second Manhattan Project to harness fusion energy. The Chinese are already making progress at this. Once that is achieved energy production will be safe, cheap and abundant. Distribution and usage is an engineering problem whose solution is already known.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: Zigrid 2/10/2025 10:44:46 AM (No. 1893236)
Well folks...I'm completely lost on this one....so I'll pass on a comment...except to say...follow President Trump's lead...he knows what is right for America....as I watch Baron Trump standing with his father...President Trump...I see he looks like his dad...and I think he thinks like his dad...he's a whole new future for America...the golden boy beget by a golden haired lion....President Trump...kinda like Simba....beget by Mufasa...isn't life fun these days....
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