he Nuclear Regulatory Commission says the reactor revival is NOT ready for prime time

[Javaman]

http://www.freepress.org/columns/display/7/2008/1664

A devastating blow to the much-hyped revival of atomic power has been delivered by an unlikely source---the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The NRC says the "standardized" designs on which the entire premise of returning nuclear power to center stage is based have massive holes in them, and may not be ready for approval for years to come.

Delivered by one of America's most notoriously docile agencies, the NRC's warning essentially says: that all cost estimates for new nuclear reactors---and all licensing and construction schedules---are completely up for grabs, and have no reliable basis in fact. Thus any comparisons between future atomic reactors and renewable technologies are moot at best. And any "hard number" basis for independent financing for future nukes may not be available for years to come, if ever.

:popcorn:

[GliderGuider]

1. Already discussed (a bit)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=115&topic_id=164496

[NNadir]

2. If you don't know what you're talking about, make stuff up.

Or ask a dumb reporter with a degree in "journalism" to make stuff up.

Or, if you really, really, really, really, really give a rat's ass about truth you can always go to the prime source of information: The horse's mouth.

http://www.nrc.gov/reactors/new-licensing/design-cert.html#issued

It's really hard to believe that the world's largest, by far, source of climate change gas free energy "is not ready for prime time."

Welcome to 400 ppm of "ready for prime time" dangerous fossil fuel waste.

The fools in charge of the denial squad deserve it.

I hope you're as old as the rest of the senile bastards in the solar pool light squad and won't have to face what has been done to future generations by ignorance.

[Javaman]

3. Man, you are like fish to chum. LOL

I put the popcorn icon there just for you. :)

It's so easy to get you out of the woodwork.

LOLOLOL