Wise Nations Are Not Cutting Nuclear Power Out of Their power Equation

Forgoing nuclear vigor is unwise for developed nations, especially inspecting all the new technology in that space, and the capability to use the fuel rods so much longer. Today's nuclear technology isn't whatever like that of the old technology. It's safer, more efficient, and able to all but eliminate the need for large long-term storage facilities. Okay, so let's talk about what's going on out there in the near-term, and why this is going to be a problem.

In Nuclear Power Daily Online News there was an description titled; "Saudi to Build 16 Nuclear Reactors" by the staff writers in Riyadh published on June 1, 2011 which stated the scheme would take decades to unblemished and cost million - "the reactors to be used in generating electricity and desalinating sea water and cover about 20% of Saudi Arabia's electricity needs." an additional one description in the same online publication, on the same day was titled; "India Stands firm on Nuclear Power" written by staff writers in New Delhi.

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Meanwhile in Germany there have been protestors and Merkel's party acquiesced to politics and announced that it would shut down All of their nuclear power plants by 2020, which one might note is a short-term political knee jerk reaction, and it's going to be costly for Germany in the long-term. In fact, there was a great description in the Economist on June 2, 2011 titled; Nuclear? Nein, Danke - A Nuclear Phase-Out Leaves Germans vigor course in a Muddle."

Yes, indeed, I'd say that's about right. The leader paragraph in that description stated that after the horrific Japan natural disaster and nuke plant meltdowns, Germans had a change of heart on nuclear vigor with anti-nuke protest flags and all; "The response by Merkel the swiftest change of political course since unification, last year they overturned a decade-old decision to phase out nuclear power by 2022."

In fact, Peter Fairley at Mit's Technology quote seems to agree in a piece he wrote on June 3 titled "What'll a Nuclear-Free Germany Cost? - Merkel's plan to transfer nuclear reactors for offshore wind farms and a stronger grid could cost more than expected," and suggests that it will cost the average household in Germany -60 per year, plus short-term issues with reoccurring blackouts. Solar and Wind are not going to cut it either, expect more coal-fired plants, clean-coal technology enabled that is.

China has also cut its nuclear ambitions, but it is having challenges with water supply, thus, not getting enough out of their hydro-electric energy. They've been construction coal-fired plants at a rapid pace but, that's not doing them any good on the world scene amid the call for discount of green-house gases, and they are doing some but relatively itsybitsy fully integrated clean coal plants. They've scraped their nuclear plans for now, but will have to re-consider, as they have vigor issues and challenges as any developed nation does.

The world should not be in such a rush to cut nuclear power out of their vigor choices, and all this knee jerk reaction is simply unwise. Smart nations are thinking long-term and understand the value of nuclear power. Please reconsider all this and think on it.

Wise Nations Are Not Cutting Nuclear Power Out of Their power Equation