Republicans Can Own The Libs on Climate Change By Defending Nuclear Plants

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Are they Thorium?

"Barack Obama gives green light to new wave of nuclear reactors

US president announces $8.3bn in loan guarantees for construction of first nuclear reactors in almost 30 years"

https://www.theguardian.com/environm...clear-reactors

No, they are PWR reactors. The Chinese have four AP1000s up and running and connected to the grid.

http://www.westinghousenuclear.com/n...nts/ap1000-pwr

http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Ar...nected-to-grid

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Many liberals want fossil fuels banned and nuclear energy banned.

How do they expect to live their pampered Western lifestyles? Do they think electricity is created by unicorn farts?

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Many liberals want fossil fuels banned and nuclear energy banned.

How do they expect to live their pampered Western lifestyles? Do they think electricity is created by unicorn farts?

The vast majority have little background in hard science like physics or chemistry, so it is little wonder that they can be hoodwinked so easily.

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The vast majority have little background in hard science like physics or chemistry, do it is little wonder that they can be hoodwinked so easily.

I blame their intellectual laziness and the prevalence of "learning" like this:

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both are additions to existing plants.......compare that with nuclear power plants shut down in the US.....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclea..._United_States

all existing nuclear power plants are over 40 years old......

Watts Bar, Unit 1, completed in 1996, and Unit 2, completed in 2015. Unit 1 has a winter net dependable generating capacity of 1,167 megawatts. Unit 2 has a capacity of 1,165 megawatts. Both units are the newest operating civilian reactors to come online in the United States, and Unit 2 is the first and only new reactor to enter service in the 21st century.

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Watts Bar, Unit 1, completed in 1996, and Unit 2, completed in 2015. Unit 1 has a winter net dependable generating capacity of 1,167 megawatts. Unit 2 has a capacity of 1,165 megawatts. Both units are the newest operating civilian reactors to come online in the United States, and Unit 2 is the first and only new reactor to enter service in the 21st century.

oh sorry.....

Of the 253 nuclear power reactors originally ordered in the United States from 1953 to 2008, 48 percent were canceled, 11 percent were prematurely shut down, 14 percent experienced at least a one-year-or-more outage, and 27 percent are operating without having a year-plus outage. Thus, only about one fourth of those ordered, or about half of those completed, are still operating and have proved relatively reliable.[38]

Amory Lovins has also commented on the historical record of nuclear power in the United States:

Of all 132 U.S. nuclear plants built (52% of the 253 originally ordered), 21% were permanently and prematurely closed due to reliability or cost problems, while another 27% have completely failed for a year or more at least once. The surviving U.S. nuclear plants produce ~90% of their full-time full-load potential, but even they are not fully dependable. Even reliably operating nuclear plants must shut down, on average, for 39 days every 17 months for refueling and maintenance, and unexpected failures do occur too.[39]

and two are less than 40 years old.......