New nuclear plants approvedFollow

Homer Simpsons of the US, rejoice!



I know exactly where that is. Actually, it made me feel a bit nostalgiac; from a hill about a mile from my house when I was growing up, you could actually see the cooling towers of Plant Vogtle in the distance, two counties away. Burke County where it is located is also really wealthy because of all the nuclear engineers, and the high school there had the nickname "The Mall" because it was so cavernous on the inside.

Edited, Feb 9th 2012 2:02pm by catwho

I've always wanted to hunt for twelve point rabbits.

Funny how every step of the process I say "Hey, look at that; just like Obama said he wanted to see done" and every step of the way the usual suspects stomp their feet and insist none of it is really happening.

Anyway, cue the usual suspects.

Obama's actually doing what he promised? The gall!

From "Russian Literature Studies"?

Russian Literature Engineering?

Or Russian Engineering Literature! Learn to write tech manuals in Cyrillic!

Edited, Feb 9th 2012 2:24pm by Jophiel

Never said that none of it *is* happening. I've always questioned the degree to which Obama is the cause of any outcomes with regard to building nuclear power plants. You love to point at this one pair of reactors on this one plant site, but the reality is that this specific site and plans were approved in 2008, set in motion back in 2006, under a consortium formed in 2004, and utilizing a DOE pro-nuclear energy program created in 2002. All Obama did was *not* block approval and construction on something that was already well under way by the time he took office.

Obama stuck to Bush's plan with regard to Iraq too. And he's kept open Guantanamo. I'm well aware that he's had to allow things he didn't like to go forward because trying to stop them would have been nearly impossible (and foolish). The reality is that his support for nuclear energy is tepid at best. It's why he typically buries anything related to that energy inside larger energy plans/reports/whatever. He knows that nuclear power is so unpopular by many of his supporters that he can't risk alienating them by appearing to give more than lip service to it.




Wouldn't want to disappoint you. Of course, I read the title of the thread and immediate thought: "Cue Joph making some broad pronouncement about how this means Obama really is pro-nuclear power after all". So you predicting me doing something in response to you doing a predictable action isn't exactly a shocker.

I didn't say he did. I said that he would post in it with his usual stock spiel. And he did.

Is this Uranium based technology, or Thorium? Because as far as I know, Thorium is safer to handle, much less hazardous all around, and can't produce weapon's grade material.

Get six of these babies and we've got a 1.21 gigawatt ticket back to whenever DeLoreans were popular.

Hold the phone! When did this happen?

GA-tech (ME) friend of mine works for southern nuclear, and I'm most pleased for him at this development.


Also, look at those comments. People are still pants on head retarded about nuclear energy.

I like that one guy arguing with everyone.

Go George Carlin, go.

Fight the stupid as other George Carlins have done before you.

Edited, Feb 10th 2012 5:01am by Tarub