Reply #26: ok, since you've volunteered to be our nuclear educator

[treepig]

i'll go ahead and ask your opinion about the CANDU reactor:

http://www.ewh.ieee.org/reg/7/millennium/candu/candu_about.html

basically, i guess what i'm interested in is countering those who claim that whatever its environmental benefits, nuclear power is just a scheme to enrich halliburton (and the usual cast of seedy right-wing, neo-con characters).

however, if CANDU reactor provide an acceptable alternative (canadians aren't that bad, are they?) then this objection is overcome. according to stuff on the web, they seem to have been building these things pretty much continously, so perhaps they've moved beyond the 1970's technology extant in the usa? or are they (i.e.., their websites) basically just putting a 21st century spin on 1950's technology?