| The flow of energy has always been important to | | | | regulations have made the cost of construction |
| advanced civilization. The ancient Egyptians used | | | | almost not worth it. The ROI of a nuclear power |
| people power. They used elephants to move things | | | | plant could take as long 150 years. This is so |
| and even in battle. The water wheel was used as | | | | unfortunate seeing how great Nuclear power is and |
| early as 4000 B.C. as power. Steam Engines are much | | | | how clean it can be when handled correctly. For this |
| newer. Animals, water and many other improvised | | | | reason in the past three decades no new permits |
| methods allowed for the making of machines. | | | | have been granted and we continue to have a large |
| Simplifying life, from farming to water pumps for mills, | | | | percentage of our power coming from fossil fuels |
| etc. By freeing up the time needed to sustain life, | | | | which is a problem for air quality and long term it has |
| mankind is able to use that extra time to increase his | | | | many issues such as acid rain. Battell is fixing this |
| flow of thought and thus coming up with other | | | | problem with clean burning coal. Imagine having all |
| inventions and devises. Now, fast forward to modern | | | | nuclear power where you turn it on, monitor it and it |
| times where we often take for granted our | | | | just sits there and produces energy? We no longer |
| electricity, until of course; it is shut off by a black | | | | lead the world in Nuclear Energy, now in the age of |
| out.What we see as the ultimate hardship other third | | | | International Terrorism we are afraid that if we build |
| world countries do not have at all. And in places like | | | | Nuclear Power then they could become a target. This |
| Baghdad only for three hours a day and they are | | | | is not proper thinking in the day and age of radar |
| thankful for that. We should not forget the gifts of | | | | guidance SAM sites, automatic sensors and back-up |
| Tesla and Entrepreneur Westinghouse for the | | | | systems. We can defend Nuclear Power Plants from |
| Hydropower and for free enterprise, which funded | | | | any type of attack. And generally the newer plants |
| the beginnings of what, we now take for granted | | | | will be put in the middle of nowhere, thus lessoning |
| every time we flick a switch. We all felt the affect | | | | the risks even more.Now then how many people will |
| of the recent Black out of the Northeast Regional | | | | breath polluted air if we do not have a continued mix |
| Power Grid, now we realize that we need to upgrade | | | | of these nuclear plants contributing to the grid. And is |
| the transmission lines through out all the grids. | | | | the grid safe any way, seeing as we already had one |
| SCARDA the real time computer system saw the | | | | blackout, which was purely a failure. Iran, N. Korea, |
| problem but nearly all the defensive options include | | | | Pakistan, India, Argentina, Armenia, Belgium, Brazil, |
| mean shutting down parts of the gird, power to | | | | Bulgaria, Canada, China Red, Taiwan, Czech Republic, |
| millions of people, which is a hard choice to make, | | | | Finland, Germany, Hungary, France, South Korea, |
| although if not covered in a timely manner the | | | | Lithuania, Mexico, Netherlands, Romania, Russia, |
| cascading would occur. We also saw the rolling | | | | Slovenia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Ukraine, UK and |
| blackouts in California and the vulnerability of getting | | | | USA all have nuclear power. France is at 68% derived |
| the grids energy to the Los Angeles basin where | | | | from nuclear. Spain 60%, Sweden 65%, Ukraine |
| Southern California inhabits over 16 million people.The | | | | 73%, UK 81%. Are we crazy? Why are we using so |
| newest pebble reactors are easy to build and | | | | little nuclear? Because we do not have neighbors |
| manage and have extremely high out put considering | | | | yelling at us next door that have to breath our |
| their small size, perfect for islands set down wind | | | | pollution and also because we have little in the way |
| from populations. Unfortunately the Three-mile Island | | | | of population compared to land mass. But Nuclear |
| and Chernople incident make populations feel | | | | only makes sense. |
| uncomfortable with Nuclear. Therefore the increased | | | | |