We need to build nuclear reactors like they are going out of style! Pebble Bed Nuclear Reactors are theoretically fail safe, small, and can be located anywhere. I would place one of these reactors in every town across America! We are so far behind the technology curve when it comes to nuclear reactors that we are positioned perfectly to start a massive build up using this technology.
Of course this doesn’t preclude the use of other technologies as well. For instance, I think that it should be mandatory for all new buildings to incorporate solar collectors into their roofs and, escpecially in the south-west, a serious review of building practices to create more thermally effecient homes.
There are negative enviromental impacts of electricity generation regardless of the technology used to produce it. I think that utilizing nuclear reactors affords the least impact of any current technology. Now before you start thinking, “What about electric cars? or hybrids? or fuel-cells?”, think about where the power for that electric car, hybrid or fuel cell powered vehicle comes from. The answer is, more than likely, fossil fuels, specifically petroleum based products.
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