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    Feb 22, 2009, 07:21 PM
    Nuclear power station
    The United States has neither commissioned nor built a new nuclear power station in over 30 years, yet there are as many as 80 new plants in the early licensing stages. What has changed in the social, environmental, and politial arenas to produce such a change in policy.
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    Feb 22, 2009, 08:03 PM
    Hello Trunks

    It's not a US problem. It's a worldwide problem.

    Three causes :

    1 - The world is slowly running out of current energy sources (coal, oil, gas)
    2 - The world has to rethink the use of current energy sources in view of pollution
    3 - Nuclear fusion is still too far away as future energy source replacement
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    Feb 22, 2009, 08:25 PM

    Agress with all of them and we need to reduce our dependence on foreign oil and also focus on renewables.
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