Nuclear ground-orbit vehicle

[malloyd]

Originally Posted by theshadow99

Still... on the topic of new plants... I'll believe when I see it... I've seen people fight against them my entire life and even recently in my own area... People are dumb and don't care that coal and oil power plants do more damage to them and the environment, they just see nuclear and go 'nuclear = bad'...

People oppose new oil and coal plants too. They want something for nothing, and you can always get a crowd to oppose a cost and demand the benefit anyway, regardless of the cost/benefit ratio.

[theshadow99]

Originally Posted by malloyd

People oppose new oil and coal plants too. They want something for nothing, and you can always get a crowd to oppose a cost and demand the benefit anyway, regardless of the cost/benefit ratio.

Well in my area (as I said earlier) people choose a experimental used tire burning plant (from a startup company) over a nuclear plant (from the power company). Sure some people complained about the used tire burning plant, but nothing was done about it. The Nuclear plant however got to picking sites and then the uproar killed the project...

That's without states like California that would have to repeal anti-nuclear laws. Which has been argued about for 3 years as I remember it... So far without success.

[malloyd]

Originally Posted by theshadow99

Well in my area (as I said earlier) people choose a experimental used tire burning plant (from a startup company) over a nuclear plant (from the power company). Sure some people complained about the used tire burning plant, but nothing was done about it. The Nuclear plant however got to picking sites and then the uproar killed the project...

This is largely an issue of jurisdiction size. The tire burning plant doesn't have a large enough protest radius to reach the scale size necessary to swing an election of the body approving it. I have seen a garbage incinerator killed by neighborhood protests, the fools sited it too close to a neighborhood of people rich enough to make contributions to statewide campaigns.