I’ve been darkly watching China, Russia, and India zoom ahead with nuclear while the WEFtern “countries” deprive ourselves of clean power. We bomb our hydro dams and turn off our nukes.
We started to plan small reactors in 1954 under the Rural Electrification Admin, created by Henry Wallace. Then we dropped all reactors and clean power after the 1975 “warming” coup.
As usual the Krauts are taking it farther than anyone else, bombing their own perfectly safe reactors. Krauts ALWAYS do everything perfectly, especially self-destruction. Japan put its reactors into dormant mode after the tsunami, probably a wise precaution. Now they’re bringing the nukes back on line after wisely adding more safety.
Here in US we didn’t tear down any active** nukes, but we’ve put many reactors in dormant mode, and haven’t built any new sites since 1980. We’ve only added one or two sub-reactors to existing sites. We have lots of activity, mostly IPO fakery, in small reactors, but no actual on-site construction yet.
TVA is returning to small reactors, still in the planning stage at this point.
Now Canada is doing it right, adding one ENTIRELY NEW small modular reactor. Construction is in full swing as seen in the video. Ontario is already nuke-friendly, deriving most of its electricity from existing nukes.
Needless to say, CBC hates independence and loves self-destruction. They played scary Halloween music while showing the construction, and emphasized the high cost. Still, they DID show the construction and allowed the builders to talk without interruption or mockery, which is more than US media would do.
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** Partial exception: We’re tearing down Hanford, a reactor that didn’t produce electric power. It was one of the first experimental sites for nuclear energy, built before safe methods were established. Washington “state” has one quietly productive reactor near Richland, serving Bonneville along with the two big hydro dams. Amazingly, nobody is trying to tear it down yet. I suppose they’ll get to it after they bomb the dams.
