Reply #38: No apology needed. I should have done my homework. But what's your take on the OP? [View All]

[Duende azul]

Does it come across as serious discussion or propaganda?

Knowing all we know how corporations work. Take Switzerland for example where Burson Marsteller runs the propaganda for the nuclear industry. With fake grassroots campaigns, manipulating wikipedia and discussion forums - you get the idea. Ironically they base the urgency of building new reactors on climate change, which on behalf of the oil giants they denied earlier on.

Come on, do you honestly belief that's real journalism?

Regarding research: For the time being I refrain from researching Armory Lovins. Seems to US specific. Not my battlefield.

Regardless reactor type, atomic energy remains a threat to life and civil liberties.
If GE gets its wet dreams fulfilled and this reactor line in mass production spread all over the globe, no one in his right mind can fantasize that it will be possible to contain proliferation. That was as far as I know one of the main reasons for Clinton and Senate to stop that thing.
Hell, the US couldn't even manage to keep their homemade anthrax in the laboratory.
To secure reactors and facilities all over the place you'd need a police state that makes America under the patriot act seem like kindergarten.
The advertised shorter halflife of the waste still is of several hundred years. We just witnessed, how fast societies change in only decades. So several hundred is still much to long. And Plutonium is still generated in the process.
And we haven't even entered in the security aspects of sodium as cooler.

So it seems - like with the wars - end that shit as soon as possible is the only viable option.