Reply #14: Been reading a little at a time, for a lot of years

[BeFree]

Ya know, I could take you a little more seriously, NNadir, if you didn't write stuff like this quote:" ...forced to make continual design changes to satisfy increasingly absurd "safety" demands" Absurd, eh?

I, for one, am glad safety was forced upon these nuke experiments. No telling how many lives have been saved.

"What fuel is too cheap to meter?" Oil, and the sun, are two free recources. We need, instead of thinking some new-nuke power is gonna save us, begin using these two free sources to the maximum.

Then, there's coal. I offer that if we began to process the coal and strip out the toxics, we can come up with a non-toxic coal product we could use it without too great of risk.

Nuke-power, otoh, has the potential for mass destruction from a singular accident. I figure the 'forced continual design changes' to our present plants is the only thing that has kept that from happening. The risk, to me, is too great, and nothing you have served up has made me rethink that position.