All anti-nuclear campaigners and protesters much be lined up and shot.
The future looks bleak my friends, make no bones about it. We are more heavily dependent on oil than you can possible imagine. What used to be a clean, abudant energy source, is now expensive, dirty, and getting progressively more difficult to find.
The Oil Age is ending, and its high time the Nuclear Age started. Just how humans weaned themselves off coal dependance and onto petroleum, it is possible to still depend on the ground to provide us with fuel.
I live in Singapore, a nation heavily dependent on oil import to sustain its power needs. Naturally, as oil prices rise, this small country with hardly any large industries to speak of experiences high electricity tariff hikes.
We are currently ranked second behind London for the world's largest electricity tariff hikes. And its only a matter of time before we are ranked first.
Singapore is expensive. Expensive housing, expensive transportation (the MRT isn't exactly cheap), very expensive cars and fuel, and its not going to improve. What do you expect from a country so heavily plugged into the world market so much so it cannot rely on anything internal to keep prices down.
Heck, even Australia is cheaper! Cheaper good food, groceries, housing, transportation, AND the country's economy is still growing.
The point of the above is this :
WE HAVE NO OPTION BUT TO START INVESTING IN NUCLEAR POWER
Yes, i mean everyone. And please do some research before opening your mouth to start feeding me rubbish about nuclear energy being unsafe, dirty, and will make mutants of us all, and that a terrorist attack on a nuclear power plant will result in a big boom.
Rubbish.....
Nuclear energy is only technology intensive. Once you get the complicated science and construction right, its cheaper than petroleum and hydrogen fuel sources. Nuclear waste is recycled and reused in many modern plants. All those stories you hear about spent fuel rods lying buried is true........for plants built 50 years ago. Not for the new generation plants.
A nuclear fuel source goes through a cycle where once it is used, it is sent for reprocessing and then for reuse, making it a very efficient and potentially cheap future power source. Its enviromentally friendly too, nuclear plants produce zero emissions, waste and even zero radiation outside the reactor.
They are built like bunkers, able to withstand missile strikes and airplanes flying into them. The initial cost is expensive, but hydroelectric dams are even more so and more enviromentally damaging too.
With regards to nuclear weapons manufacturing, making nuclear fuel is not the same as making weapons grade uranium. And you need missile tech to really make the weapons useful.
The only option now is to start getting tough on hippies and anti-nuke nutjobs who NEVER do their homework and study a bit of nuclear science to learn a bit more about what they're fighitng against :
A clean, safe, sustainable and cheap energy source, waiting to be used. Uranium deposits are plenty, and hardly explored too.
I for one stand by the nuclear industry and I want it to grow. To learn more about nuclear power, read this website:
And please, before making some snide anti-nuke remarks in the comment section, do your homework to avoid coming across as a complete idiot.
Other than that, see you in the nuclear future!
Cheers from the,
Matrix
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