Reply #9: Your corporate spin-o-matic seems to have developed a short.

[kristopher]

Q: Where and how does antinuclear activism begin?

A: (by the unenlightened Atheist Crusader): When renewables, or at least low-CO2 power production takes up so much slack that we don't see people talking about gas combined cycle plants as making 'renewables possible'. That would be a start.

That is a particularly contorted attempt to say that moving to renewables will entail using dispatchable power sources like natural gas.
So will nuclear, unless that is, you plan on building nuclear peaking plants. You see, when we build geothermal we also have a dispatchable plant, as are the various water based sources, as are biofuel plants, as are biomass plants - and even that blessed canard of the righists works - we can build storage!

Right now we have all of that excess NATURAL GAS capacity because the load shaping capability of the large scale generation twins Coal and Nuclear is very poor. That is the system you seek to preserve.

I say we should change it to one where the supply is far more effectively tailored to the demand and where we have far more local control of what power sources we use. I've had enough of the nuclear priesthood. You guys make the Jonestown folks seem sane.