State of the Union Question

Youth leaders from around the country respond to the President's State of the Union address with a critical question.

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[Jams0420]

Right now technology isn't up for powering this country on wind and solar. What we can start doing is lowering our oil dependency and one solution for that is nuclear power. The only way we could switch to solar and wind right now is if all you environmentalist bloggers got offline and stopped using so much power.

[Audinos]

Let's see. We can't use nuclear power because of (egad!) radioactive waste. We can't use hydro, because it kills salmon. We can't put up wind turbines because endangered birds are killed by their blades, and neighbors don't like the noise they make. Solar works great if you're charging a car battery in Arizona, but it's useless everywhere else. Coal pollutes. Geothermal could pollute groundwater. Why don't these uneducated, liberal brats try to live without electricity for a day. Or try working.

[Timtrewyn]

@madisonelectronic A gentleman who has worked in a nuclear power plant told me about NRC approved safe designs. He was very confident in them. I've never worked for the NRC or this White House, so I don't really know their details. I'm simply asking nuclear advocates to explain the lack of private, or even French, if you will, investment in new American power plants for the last 3 decades. They receive a significant subsidy in the Price-Anderson Act. Check it out.

[madisonelectronic]

@Timtrewyn NRC means shit as far as this White House is concerned and you know it. Why not copy the French. Years of electrical generation and no accidents yet.

[madisonelectronic]

Just give up your federal school loans, and we will put the money toward the environment. NO???? Then shut the fuck up.

[peacelord]

"Because off-shore drilling is safe." *BOOM* "WTF was that?"

[911reset]

omfg. zombies!

[Timtrewyn]

Questions to nuclear advocates on this thread: Have not the major designers of new plants obtained cooperation and approval from the NRC on their new safe designs? Why haven't private investors put their money on new nuclear power plants? There's plenty of money out there looking for a good return. Price-Anderson isn't enough government risk management for them?

[ashida20]

The liberals have brainwashed them well

[MichaelMann007]

WOW still people who think AGW is real!

[Lunargolfball]

@ axe863: I expect that they did that so they can quietly get started on plans for a spent fuel reprocessing plant. Because nuclear reprocessing reduces nuclear waste to a fraction and would provide thousands of more jobs. I still want yucca mountain opened, but it would be for what can be for the small amount that cant be recycled.

[axe863]

Too bad Obama and other Dems have shut down the Yucca Mountain site... so I take his position as a shallow appeasement to the right.