Do you support building new nuclear power plants?

Question

Where should they be built?

Thanks for the well thought out answers.

Answer 1

Yes, only gloabal warming deniers are agaist building clean nuclear power plants.

We have to replace the polluting fossil fuel power plants as quickly as we can.

Even the UN Climate Change report, said we need to build nuclear power plants to replace the fossil fuel power plants.

Wind, hydro, thermal and all the other alternative energy sources are nice, but they simpley do not have the ability to ever provide more than 10% of the energy needs of the US.

Fossil fuel powe plants contribute 39% of all global green house gas emmissions, making them the single largest source.

We need to replace them as soon as possible.

Answer 2

Yes.

They should be coastal plants with closed cooling systems equidistant from major cities.
They should be constructed with back up diesel generators using Bio-Diesel.
Comparable KW units burning clean coal and bio should be built or at least planned at matching intervals until the entire grid is off imported oil.
Any future plants or augments to existing nukes should be focused on wind, solar, wave, geo thermal or tidal such that Nuke plants can be shut down on fuel replacement intervals thus eliminating the radioactive waste issue.
All diesel vehicles should be mandated to run some percentage of Bio-Diesel depending on climate.
Auto manufacturers must be required to sell at least one Diesel powered vehicle before they can sell five gasoline or flex fuel vehicles of the same type.
Poof, you're off imported oil.
The Saudis can go back to herding goats at the oasis.

All states required to dedicate a site or sites of their choice in cooperation with the EPA and the Army corp of Engineers to provide an equal amount of KW to the national grid using any combination of generation source other than oil.

Edit: France is a good example but, not that good. They have 59 plants. France is only about the size of Texas and Texas has a more robust per capita GDP. We can not go 90% Nuke and we shouldn't. The waste problem would be unmanageable. We need a comprehensive plan that mandates ALL alternatives.

Answer 3

YES! Why wouldn't we use something that we could build now to make us more energy independant? If we built enough Nuclear Power Plants, we could reduce CO2 emmissions by 50-70 percent, just by replacing current plants.

People are all upset about them because of accidents like Cherynoble and three mile island... But Cherynoble happened in the USSR, where they had miniscule saftey precausions, poor funding, etc. Sure a lot of people died, but its because they handled it in the worst possible way... Three Mile Island was the worst accident in the U.S., but that is basically a success story. If you hopped on a plane from New York to Los Angeles you would be subject to more radiation (from the turbines) than anyone was who lived near the reactor.

Building new nuclear plants would allow us to make cheaper electricity, meaning companies would have more incentive to invest in research into Hydrogen Fuel Cell and Electric powered cars, driving our greenhouse emmissions even lower.

France currently generates around 3/4 of it's energy using Nuclear plants, and have you ever heard of an instance of a melt down or even a near-disaster? The safety checks in place are many-fold, so that there is really no real chance of a melt down occuring.

Place one in the country, and nobody will want to build around it. Spend money on regulating and inspecting them, and we'll never have a problem.

And honestly considering the costs (a possible melt down, even though the odds are infinitesimal) compared to the benefits (energy independance from the Middle east, a base from which to move to eliminate even more green house gas emissions...), how could you begin to make a case to keep us from building them?

Answer 4

I think for once, we should follow the French program. Over 90% of their country is powered by nuclear energy, it is cost effective, cleaner than coal or oil and they did it the right way. They contracted and built each facility the same way, unlike us in the past. ours was privatized to build with public money. Way too much fraud, the cost was through the roof! for once, lets follow frances lead. ( but just this once)
They should be built in safe, easily defended areas throughout the country, away from major water sources and densely populated areas as well.

Answer 5

Yes. They produce the cheapest and cleanest form of energy.

Despite what this so-called "Top-contributor"says.. "by oohhbother
No - just search the news for inspection and incident reports. The ones we have should not be running. They aren't being and can't be kept safe.
And they produce the ultimate in pollution "

That's absolutely incorrect. Nuclear Power is the cheapest and cleanest (less than 1% Pollution) form of energy available.

How does someone who's so dim get that ranking????

Try researching the facts before stating bold faced lies.

Answer 6

As long as there was a way to safely store waste I support building nuclear power plants. To allay any fears, they should be built away from populated areas.

Answer 7

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Answer 8

I don't think we should rely on nuclear power. For two reasons.

One is the waste. We really don't know what to do with it, and every solution we come up with is really temporary, to just pass it off to the next generation.

The other is that we don't have good regulation in this country. The government agencies that are supposed to be keeping an eye on industries are run by the industries themselves. So we can't depend on big companies like General Electric and Bechtel to build good, safe plants. The last nuclear plant we built here in California ran 300% over budget and several years over schedule, and after it was all finished it was found that one wing was made with the plans for the other wing, reversed, and it was sitting directly over an earthquake fault, so it was never even opened!

These two problems show that we are not MATURE enough to build and run nuclear power plants. Maybe someday, but not now.

Answer 9

No. I support wind, solar, hydro-electric, and geo-thermal power plants. We have all the tools we need through natural resources, yet people do not seem willing to think outside of what makes the biggest profits for energy companies.

Also, It would take 20 years and billions of dollars to bring a nuclear facility online.

Answer 10

No. Not at all. Anybody who does support it hasn't investigated all the hazards involved with uranium and hasn't had a serious look at the viable alternatives that smarter countries are using. Anybody who is interested in being educated, check out the following links.


http://anawa.org.au/mining/index.html

http://www.wise-uranium.org/uwai.html

http://www10.antenna.nl/wise/index.html?

http://www10.antenna.nl/wise/439-440/chapter2.html

http://www.uic.com.au/nip10.htm