France Likes Nuclear, Why can’t We?
October 6th, 2009 at 12:00pm Bob Trojan
France has a significant % of their electricity generated by nuclear…and they’ve figured out a way to deal with the waste.
“French technocrats had never thought that the waste issue would be much of a problem. From the beginning the French had been recycling their nuclear waste, reclaiming the plutonium and unused uranium and fabricating new fuel elements. This not only gave energy, it reduced the volume and longevity of French radioactive waste. The volume of the ultimate high-level waste was indeed very small: the contribution of a family of four using electricity for 20 years is a glass cylinder the size of a cigarette lighter. It was assumed that this high-level waste would be buried in underground geological storage and in the 80s French engineers began digging exploratory holes in France’s rural regions.” see the rest here..
So why penalize us with the Cap and Trade?
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2 Comments Add your own
1. LD | October 6th, 2009 at 12:58 pm
Wouldn’t Cap and Trade benefit a nuclear option? Which would explain why Exelon is pushing so hard for Cap and Trade.
2. Mr. Funfsinn | October 8th, 2009 at 5:30 am
I thought that Cap and Tax excluded nuclear and hydro. Comed is probably pushing hard to end that exclusion. Frankly, Cap and Tax COULD be a real Cap and Trade if there were no Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPS), but simply a limit on certain emissions since nuclear would be preferred. Also, clean coal would be preferred, which Dick Durbin apparently agrees with since he is pushing for that project.
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