On Oct 21, 2014, at 2:02 AM, Phil Pugliese (via tml list) <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote:

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> A lot of people really are really, really scared of *anything* that's 'nuclear'…

yeah, but those haven’t been the people in charge of allocating this funding. Those people HAVE done a good job blaming it all on the hippies.

The reason nuclear power isn’t a big thing right now has far, far less to do with the dirty smelly anti-nuke hippies than the guys in the bank offices with the green visors.

Fission plants are a hella lot more expensive to build, run, maintain and (eventually) decommission than they were sold as.

Believe me, if nuclear power plants were profitable, all the DSANH’s in the world would have not been enough to stop the profit machines.

You’ll notice they didn’t really slow down building little ones for submarines. That’s because in that context, nuclear power made economic sense. The reason we only built one nuke-powered carrier was because it’s cheaper to build, use and  maintain conventional ones not because we thought that nukes were evil.

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