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One of the biggest problems we have with nuclear energy is poorly conceived regulations. Brian wrote about it and you just wrote about it.
We're living with Jimmy Carter era regs that weren't very good in the first place and are now seriously outdated.
Waste can be reprocessed in the reactors which generates more energy and makes better byproducts to manage. Yet our regs forbid it. The French have been doing it for decades, generate like 80% of their power from nuclear plants, and are two or three generations ahead of us technology wise. We can learn from their experience.
We're living with Jimmy Carter era regs that weren't very good in the first place and are now seriously outdated.
Waste can be reprocessed in the reactors which generates more energy and makes better byproducts to manage. Yet our regs forbid it. The French have been doing it for decades, generate like 80% of their power from nuclear plants, and are two or three generations ahead of us technology wise. We can learn from their experience.
