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Nearly 20 years ago, I took my daughter and a friend to a Westinghouse facility in Western Pennsylvania for a special day to encourage girls in STEM studies. The nuclear power action was then in France. Westinghouse was very bullish on its future. The young scientists and engineers just seemed to be bursting with excitement. It made me wish I could have been one of them, but it was getting too late in my career to make that kind of change. Unfortunately, the boom got busted. I hope someday to see nuclear energy addressed with that kind of enthusiasm again.
Big utilities are nothing but the legislators and the executives ripping off the citizens. I think it’s the most under publicized problem in conservative politics.
Small nuclear reactors have been perfected. We could have done small nuclear reactors 20 years ago. Decentralized utilities are pro-conservative.
All of these lefties should be for it, but they aren’t. We have around 2 billion destitute poor on this planet that don’t care about pollution or global warming. We could give them small nuclear reactors. We get 40% of the profit and the citizens get checks for the 60% of the profit. If they don’t cooperate after we build it that’s what small diameter bombs are for. If you’re worried about global warming, that’s how you do it.