JB
2008-05-18 06:32:46
SAF:
Just a point of detail: the US doesn’t burn much oil for electricity – here, oil goes to distallates. Coal and gas are the fossil fuels that nuclear can and should replace. If you want nuclear power to substitute for the US’s oil consumption, consider a massive 10 year mandated shift to plug in hybrid vehicles in conjuntion with an Apollo scale 100 reactor building program.
Short of a Federal steamroller to flatten NIMBY and some environmental opposition to nukes, I’m pessimistic that a menaingful nuclear build program will ever happen.
