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Nuclear power is the greenest option, say top scientists
A golf-ball-sized lump of uranium would supply the lifetime's energy needs of a typical person, equivalent to 56 tanker trucks of natural gas, 800 elephant-sized bags of coal or a renewable battery as tall as 16 "super" skyscraper buildings placed one on top of the other, they said.
China is using technology abandoned by the U.S. to build the nuclear plant of the future
Over the next two decades China hopes to build the world’s largest nuclear power industry. Plans include as many as 30 new conventional nuclear plants (in addition to the 34 reactors operating today) as well as a variety of next-generation reactors, including thorium molten-salt reactors, high-temperature gas-cooled reactors (which, like molten-salt reactors, are both highly efficient and inherently safe), and sodium-cooled fast reactors (which can consume spent fuel from conventional reactors to make electricity). Chinese planners want not only to dramatically expand the country’s domestic nuclear capacity but also to become the world’s leading supplier of nuclear reactors and components, a prospect that many Western observers find alarming.
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We can't keep relying on "burning stuff". No matter how you look at it, it's dirty. Whether you are digging it out of the ground or drilling for it. And when you burn it, it creates pollution. There is no way around that.
I know it's a pipe dream. America needs educated people and Republicans know that educated people vote Democrat. But it's a nice dream.
A golf-ball-sized lump of uranium would supply the lifetime's energy needs of a typical person, equivalent to 56 tanker trucks of natural gas, 800 elephant-sized bags of coal or a renewable battery as tall as 16 "super" skyscraper buildings placed one on top of the other, they said.
China is using technology abandoned by the U.S. to build the nuclear plant of the future
Over the next two decades China hopes to build the world’s largest nuclear power industry. Plans include as many as 30 new conventional nuclear plants (in addition to the 34 reactors operating today) as well as a variety of next-generation reactors, including thorium molten-salt reactors, high-temperature gas-cooled reactors (which, like molten-salt reactors, are both highly efficient and inherently safe), and sodium-cooled fast reactors (which can consume spent fuel from conventional reactors to make electricity). Chinese planners want not only to dramatically expand the country’s domestic nuclear capacity but also to become the world’s leading supplier of nuclear reactors and components, a prospect that many Western observers find alarming.
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We can't keep relying on "burning stuff". No matter how you look at it, it's dirty. Whether you are digging it out of the ground or drilling for it. And when you burn it, it creates pollution. There is no way around that.
I know it's a pipe dream. America needs educated people and Republicans know that educated people vote Democrat. But it's a nice dream.
