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You and I have had this conversation before...
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and I think we're in fundamental agreement on the major points. The one place where I do part company from you is

"...a lot of people don't WANT nuclear power to work."

I think those people have every right to feel that way, for reasons I've beat to death on these pages too many times already. But I also think
those people could be educated into changing their minds; but they will never again trust the business community, or a government run by the business community, to manage nuclear power. And I have to admit I agree with them.

Jimmy Carter had the technical training to have pulled it off, and Obama has the charisma and trust, but the former was obsessed with the (now moot!) proliferation issue and the latter just doesn't have the technical background to understand the issues. What will eventually happen is that we'll wind up having to buy our nuclear tech from someone else. I just hope they've done a better job of developing it than we did.

It won't be the first time we developed a major technology/industry and let it slip through our fingers because of greed.

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