Yet another religious cult raided

[Occhidiangela]

And speaking of my ass:

I believe you meant to say "speaking out of my ass." Lots of emotion, barely a fart of reason to be found in that post.

I'll say it politely: please go back to your amateur proctology practice. It is not my "enlightenment" that has changed, it is technology.

Hardly. Willful ignorance. Please note:

http://www.newsweek.com/id/131753?GT1=43002

Nuclear power was a good choice in 1978, and it it a good choice in 2008. What is different is that now you admit it. What is also different is that processes and procedures, as usual in human enceavors, improve or adjust. The Navy had been running higher risk reactors than TMI for twenty years, and have since (design higher risk due to power density and geometry) and their safety record was ignored, head in sand, by the anti nuke ostriches. The Chernobyl reactor design was not the standard design of American commercial reactors, it too was a high risk design. The French have sustained their nuclear program in the interim, with the result that 70-80% of their electricity comes from nuclear. (Granted, they have an order of magnitude smaller demand, but choosing not to play Chicken Little has been for them beneficial in the long term. )

Welcome back to daylight. Or did you spend twenty years making money on coal stocks?

There is still work to be done, and R&D dollars spent on smarter and better handling of nuclear waste. The thorium reactor discussed in the other thread is hardly news, what is news is getting one operating as proof of concept. We did some undergrad level work on a Thorium level reactor, power in, Uranium usage, etc, back in 1978 in my Reactor Physics class.

Occhi