yeah because “Underground Armageddon” was so good.

The only breeder reactors to ever exist in france were the Phoenix and Superphoenix research reactors, neither of which are currently operating. All of the Commercial reactors operating in France currently are conventional pressurized water units. You stated France “Uses Breeders” and as such their method of power…

First of all, you’ve shown no such thing. And, as I’ve stated, solar can be virtually free and until and unless a scalable, cost effective storage method is invented and brought to market, its still a loser on cost and reliability. Moreover, the amaount of overcapacity and storage you’ll need to make up not just for…

Additionally (suggest you read the other reply first), the question of why, when there are risks, would we want to use these energy sources? Simply because they’re proven to work. if we want to decarbonize our energy infrastructure, we need proven solutions yesterday and pretty much the only industrialized nations to…

Human fallibility is an issue, but it’s an issue everywhere. The problem is the perception that nuclear energy is this hugely dangerous thing that operates balanced on the head of a pin when in reality it’s no more or less innately dangerous than many industrial processes we take for granted every day.

The thing is,…

As far as I know, it’s mostly falling (off roofs and turbine towers) and some house-fires.

There are certainly trade-offs with every energy source. My point in discussing nuclear energy safety is to refute anti-nuclear arguments that stem from the perceived safety issues. If you want to discuss other reasons for support of nuclear energy I’d be happy to.

You see the key difference in practicality between…

This is measured by per watt-hour of energy produced, not per watt capacity installed, so It really doesn’t matter where in the process the fatalities occur. Per unit of energy delivered to the end-user, more fatalities occur with wind and solar than with nuclear fission. If you want to talk about the relative…

Wow, what a curious way of dismissing facts that challenge your preconceptions.

Chernobyl had a complete breach of containment. It is the definition of a worst case scenario for a fission reactor. Please do some research.

I don’t see the problem there. Raw counts don’t really mean much. A raw count of wind and solar deaths would be tremendously low because they produce a comparatively minuscule amount of energy. It’s a lot like a town of 1,000 people claiming to have a lower homicide rate than a city of 1,000,000 because they only…

My guess is that they figured there wasn’t enough data on large scale solar farms to make an assessment, but I could be wrong. I agree that raw fatalities per watt is not a perfect metric for safety, but it gets the key point across: even with accidents, attempting to decry nuclear power as too unsafe to use is…

Fewer fatalities per kilowatt hour of energy produced. Wind and solar power are pretty safe but casualties still occur in building and operating them.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2012/06/10/energys-deathprint-a-price-always-paid/#7cb20c6249d2
Fact is, per unit of energy, More people die from wind turbines…

Yet it’s safer than any alternative (Including wind and solar). Yes, radiation is scary and all, but the fact is that Nuclear power has fewer fatalities per watt-hour than any other source. If nuclear isn’t safe enough for you, nothing is.

Yeah, I mean they definitively want republicans in power in the broader sense, but the question comes down to whether dealing with Trumps brand of populism is worth it to them. I see GOP donations dropping like a stone between now and 2020.

This is absurd. I’m not going to fire my subordinates, or stop working with my coworkers because of their political beliefs, absurd as I find them. It’s not conducive to the cause. This guy is using his personal resources to support resist the atrocities of this administration, and the fact that this publication…

I just have to believe that what the GOP is doing with Trump just isn’t politically sustainable. You can win a lot of votes spouting incongruent nonsense, but you can’t win elections entirely on the back of tribalism. you need at least a few people and groups who are smart enough to know and vote for their best…

Undeniably true, but on the semi-positive side, that’s also where this GOP civil war we’ve been talking about for a few years probably comes to a head. This Immigration nonsense is terrible for business (especially highly placed skilled labor) and in the GOP, donations from business interests pay the bills. Same…

We watch it in bed before we got to sleep. It’s frickin’ magical.

Not necessarily. Congress always has low approval ratings because congress is an abstract concept. People pretty much always love their congressman. meanwhile Trump is already colossally unpopular, which is unprecedented this early in a presidency.