Breaking: CEO of GE says nuclear power “really hard” to defend financially — “At some point, really, economics rule"

SEE I BELIEVE IN GOD. THERE IS A CEO OF GE.

This is just to prepare us for when O'bammy buys all the nuclear plants with our tax money and then taxes us more to keep them operating. Also could be a warning that our electric bills will take a drastic hike to keep GE comfortably rich. Either way....we take the reaming,as usual.

Well, you have to look at who is saying this.

GE is big in turbines, but doesn't have a "Shovel ready" advanced reactor. Westinghouse is actually shipping and installing their advanced reactor.

I'm a fan of LFTR. The US Government should take the money it is flushing into Global Warming/Climate Change/Climate whatever funding and develop a Liquid Floride Thorium Reactor. The reactor has only about 2/3 the waste heat of a PWR (pressurize water reactor) and since it runs at atmospheric pressure most of the problems go away.


The reactor is just a steel tub full of liquid salt and fuel (the fuel is dissolved in the salt). If cooling fails the solution heats up and expands until it becomes subcritical (the reaction stops). Absolutely passive safe.

The reactor should be about half the cost of a PWR because 90% of the piping and safety systems don't exit. The reactor is a heavy tin can that can stand atmospheric pressure, not a 6-inch thick steel vessel that has to survive 2300 psi. A pressurized water reactor is a huge cylinder under the same pressure as a scuba tank.

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Are we seriously too dumb to use the safer molten salt reactors and pebble bed type reactors. Not only safer and self regulating but produce much less WEAPONS grade refuse!!!

What this means is that the Nuclear Age is over.

Because they have successfully tested the Superconducting Homopolar Dynamo's onboard the Air Craft Carriers and Destroyers.

Its clean power, but your gonna pay for it...

Doesn't Homopolar go under the Chik Fil A thread?

OH How as a GE stockholder since I was ten years old - OH HOW I WISH THEY HAD FIGURED OUT THE ECONOMIC REALITIES OF BUILDING AND SELLING NUCLEAR PLANTS BACK IN THE 1950's or 1960's. We wouldn't have the planet saddled with these monstrosities that we cannot control, are not safe, and in fact spew out a poison far worse than anything nature produces on her own as a BY PRODUCT of their generation of power.

MarkizAZ:

1. Laws have been written to make Nuclear power look unattractive. Much like Archer Daniel Midland was bribed to make ethanol.

2. How much has the radiation level in California changed?
About as much as if you stood on your roof.

3. Of course we can control power plants - that's what control rods are for.

4. What is this awful poison that you talk about?

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I don't believe nuclear power is meant for our cycle. I do believe that with the forthcoming of whatever is to take place that creates a new world, such ideas as 'strict' nuclear could be feasible.

I agree with a lot of what you said but the main point I would like to make is that nuclear fuel is probably really only useful in space :)

He's right. No insurance company wants to insure nuclear power unless some safer means are developed where safety is assured all the time and the risks reduced completely. Sadly, for that to happen and the insurance companies to realize that nuclear energy can be safe, it requires someone to take a huge leap and build one, to prove to these guys that it can be done, cheaply, safely and easily.

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Nearly all of France is powered by Nuclear, and it is the largest exporter of electricity in the world:
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A nuclear power phase-out is the discontinuation of usage of nuclear power for energy production. Often initiated because of concerns about nuclear power, phase-outs usually include shutting down nuclear power plants and looking towards renewable energy and other fuels.

Austria was the first country to begin a phase-out (in 1978) and has been followed by Sweden (1980), Italy (1987), Belgium (1999), and Germany (2000). Austria and Spain have gone as far as to enact laws not to build new nuclear power stations. Several other European countries have debated phase-outs.

Following the March 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, Germany has permanently shut down eight of its reactors and pledged to close the rest by 2022. The Italians have voted overwhelmingly to keep their country non-nuclear Switzerland and Spain have banned the construction of new reactors. Japan’s prime minster has called for a dramatic reduction in Japan’s reliance on nuclear power. Taiwan’s president did the same. Mexico has sidelined construction of 10 reactors in favor of developing natural-gas-fired plants. Belgium is considering phasing out its nuclear plants, perhaps as early as 2015.

As of November 2011, countries such as Australia, Austria, Denmark, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Malta, Portugal, Israel, Malaysia, New Zealand, and Norway remain opposed to nuclear power.

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