Green River Reactors Revisited

I still stand by my original position on the Green River Reactors, but there have been recent developments in both my knowledge and politics since I have written last. My original article may be accessed by clicking here or by finding it in the site webpages list to the right under Utah Green River Reactors.

Many opponents of the Green River Reactors in Utah have pointed to a recent law that has been written up as grounds for why these reactors are ludicrous. The law is SB199.

Many opponents state that it is ridiculous as it proposes charging the taxpayers for the construction of the plant long before the plant is actually built. They also say that this is necessary for Nuclear Power Plants to be created because too few investors are willing to dish out billions of dollars in an investment that might fail.

They opponents then go on to say that while Nuclear Energy is Carbon Emission Free, it contains waste which we currently don't know how to deal with.

I will agree that it is ridicules to charge tax-payers for a service that isn't even present yet, however, the reason why people are too afraid to invest is because of opponents like these making these projects potentially risky investments. If the investors could be sure that it would actually be possible for the plant to be created, they would be more than happy to invest in it. It is only because of these environmentalist groups that people are too afraid to place any real investments in these companies.

It is completely true that Nuclear Energy Carbon Emission Free, and as for the claim that we don't know how to deal with Nuclear Energy: it is utterly ridicules. There are two process which would completely eradicate our Nuclear Energy problem: first, Reprocessing which would reuse many of the more dangerous and longer lasting elements and second, Vitrification which would transform the remaining radioactive elements into a much safer glass form. This glass could be stored underground for thousands of years while the remaining radioactive isotopes decomposed.

The twin process of Reprocessing and Vitrification could effectively eliminate all of our current problems with Nuclear Waste and many of the complaints about the energy source in general.

Thank you once again for reading.
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Sources:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitrification

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_reprocessing

http://healutah.org/news/nuclearspeculation/02/21/13
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