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Originally Posted by pj67coll
Most every huge engineering enterprise winds up over budget. That doesn't stop them from being built. It's not just about making money, it's also about providing energy. Not something without which civilization can flourish.
They have rights unfortunately which elevates whackjobs to the level of considered thinkers with consequently unfortunate effects on civilization. Such as the woefully inadequate number of oil refinaries in the US. Especially in places like Californie where these retards have prohibited construction of new installations for decades now.
I don't know. Obviously they don't have the problems with it you seem to see at every turn. Or 80 percent of their generating capacity would not be nuclear now would it?
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There are accusations that France buries its nuke waste in African countries that can be bribed to take it. No proof that I know of on that. But France isn't that large and densely populated. Disposing of it in country could be tough.
You assume that the level of energy use we "enjoy" in the US today is actually beneficial to us. We're getting fatter, we spend un-godly amounts of time commuting, and we have noise and air pollution all about.
Just 20 or 30 years ago, auto purists we're screaming that this damned, new-fangled pollution control equipment would ruin engines, would make cars too slow, etc. Oh well. What notion do we hold sacred now that we will someday chuckle about?