It depends what kind of reactors he’s talking about. If something newer such …

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Comment on Abe: “We Need More Nuclear Reactors!” by Charismatic Vampire:

It depends what kind of reactors he’s talking about.

If something newer such as molten salt reactors which simply cannot go into runaway and are safer then Carl Sagan petting a baby seal or CANDU reactors which lack a the dangerous high pressure core then yes.

If more of the out dated high pressure BLWRs like in Fukkishima which for some reason did not have a concrete containment dome then no.

Personally I think Japan should pour money into thorium molten salt reactors as this could give it the cheap and safe energy it needs.

Charismatic Vampire made other comments on this post:

• Abe: “We Need More Nuclear Reactors!”:
  

  Until storage technology improves you can only have about 25% to 33% of your power grid on renewable energy. Any more then that it becomes difficult to juggle the loads. Still that’s a quarter to third of your power so they should not be discounted either.

• Abe: “We Need More Nuclear Reactors!”:
  

  There are two near term but they could be troublesome themselves. First Geothermal but it comes at the price of more small under 4.0 earth quakes if implemented wrong. Second reopen the mines on Hashima island or buy coal from Australia. But coal is dirty. The third is not really an option is Natural gas but this is only cost effective if you’re sitting on a natural gas reserve or close enugh to use a pipeline. If gas has to be shipped in it becomes very expensive so much so you might as well …

• Abe: “We Need More Nuclear Reactors!”:
  

  Well that’s the easily mined uranium there’s practically a limitless supply if you count low grade ores and that dissolved in seawater. http://www.americanenergyindependence.com/uranium.aspx Thorium is not theoretical it’s been used as a reactor fuel before and there’s enough easily thorium to last for tens of thousands of years. http://nucleargreen.blogspot.com/2008/03/real-world-thorium-reserve.html

• Abe: “We Need More Nuclear Reactors!”:
  

  Thorium is today everything fusion wished it was. Cheap,safe,and clean.

• Abe: “We Need More Nuclear Reactors!”:
  

  If you go by watt per lumen CFL beats LED.

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