France has the world's best nuclear program, and even they're having a miserable failure of a time with a breeder reactor program. they're woefully behind on construction times and incredibly overbudget. people are hesitant to support technology that isn't quite there yet, which is the real problem. the people that are actually out there lobbying the government are against adopting this technology until its been shown to work and be cost effective.CameronPoe wrote:
Basically it's because human beings, for the most part, are mindless drones that have no interest in critically appraising flashy news stories and documentaries. It's basically the same reason why pure democracy would be doomed to failure, as Plato worked out a couple of thousand years ago....nukchebi0 wrote:
Could someone give a concise statement detailing why we don't utilize nuclear power as a greater percent of our electrical energy output?
My understanding is that it was a bunch of misguided and myopic environmentalists capitalizing on Three Mile Island and Chernobyl, but I think it is less simplistic than that.
Having said that France and the UK have managed to build quite extensive civil nuclear programs. I don't see why other sensible governments can't steamroll through public opinion with programs of their own.
a lot of people are against it mindlessly, yes. but the ones that are really exercising their voice actually have a real reason to be against it. when france's breeder program finally gets where it needs to be i imagine there's going to be a great uprising in nuclear power plants.