This is a general topic asking anti-nuclear people to specify when they are talking about fission and when they are talking about fusion when they say "nuclear."

Thanks. We can use this as a general discussion for fusion power as well.

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There would be nothing wrong with nuclear power if it were nationalized and cutting edge in terms of safety.

It might as well be nationalized, it's regulated to hell and gone. And they are the cutting edge in safety. I don't know much about modern plants, but I do about the 1980's style heavy-water reactors. Foot-thick reinforced concrete containment dome with everything radioactive inside. The main coolant pipes are about a foot in diameter, made of A513 steel with inch thick walls and a lead coat. In the event of a meltdown, it only takes about 100 gallons a minute to quench the reaction - about what six garden hoses put out. They have dozens of instruments for measuring various conditions inside the containment and in the reactor, and they have instruments to monitor the instruments. They have dozens of failsafes, and failsafes for their failsafes. The odds of a catastrophic meltdown are close to 0 for this type of reactor. And this is 1980's state of the art. What we have now is bound to be better.

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Never argue with an idiot. He'll just drag you down to his level of intelligence and beat you with experience.

Of course it would be nationalized. It would be providing 99% of the world's energy and energy is something I consider to be an "essential, and therefore shouldn't be private.

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"Moreover, I am cognizant of the interrelatedness of all communities and states...Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial "outside agitator" idea. Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider anywhere within its bounds."



~Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.