<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 10:19 PM Stuart LaForge via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
I don't necessarily think nuclear reactors should be privately owned. <br>
Terrorism, and other risks suggest that nuclear power-plants should be <br>
built and run and by the DoD and DoE.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>DoD and DoE? Joint ownership? DoE already oversees reactors.</div><div><br></div><div>The government could do a lot to promote new reactors along the lines of greasing the regulatory skids, but there's a lot of irrational fear associated with nuclear power and nobody in DC has the balls to try to change that.</div><div><br></div><div>I think DoE screwed up when they stopped researching thorium-based reactors.</div><div><br></div><div>Given the widespread failures of our government, I'm not at all comfortable with the idea of them militarizing nuclear power production.</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"> Say it is for national security <br>
(it is),screw the permits, and build them on military bases. Clear out <br>
some of that tinder on Federal land in California that catches fire <br>
every year, and use the land to build military forts with nuclear <br>
power-plants in them. Use them to power surrounding cities, and maybe <br>
sell power cheap to the power companies almost like the Fed does money <br>
to banks.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Cooling water might be scarce in most of those areas.</div><div><br></div><div>-Dave </div></div></div>