Boiling water with radioactive materials to spin steam turbines is kind of a dumb ass way to make a lot of electricity. It does however function as a wonderful way to concentrate huge amounts of capital for the bean counters. Once these water boilers are built using huge government subsidies and gigantic secretive contracts to put together the suppossed high tech steam boilers which create obscene profits for all the big international contractors then the owners want them to operate for 50 or 60 years so as to maximize returns on their illusionary paper investments. You pay for the Nuke, and you pay for all the profits and then you pay for the juice coming out of the thing. Great deal.
A nuke at 10 billion dollars to provide electricity for what? For 10 Billion they could have superinsulated millions of homes and put photovoltaices on the roofs.. But that does not concentrate your paycheck upwards into one place where it can be put to use as proper non earned income.
The current disaster clearly shows the absurdity of building nuclear water boilers. In any long term sustainable world, lets say thinking our civilization were to last 1000 years even, the rate of these things getting hit by disasters is just unacceptable. But we of course are just looking at next quarters earnings not 1000 years out.
So please tell your congress person or senator that you would like to get beyond boiling water with dangerous atomic elements and would much prefer a super insulated house and photovoltaics and smart electric grids and stuff designed to use less electricity and heresy maybe even a reduction in the use of electronic devices and a return to good old stuff made out of things like wood and metal.
Pretty damn simple.
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