This quote says it all about why nuclear is not THE source for ALL electricity in America. The oligarchs who own the energy utilities feared that they would lose control of their industry to the government. Then they hired the likes of Ralph Nader et al to demonize nuclear energy. The capitalist class had to suppress this technology in order to keep the profits rolling into their bank accounts. Meanwhile technological progress is being impeded. Nuclear power is what we need to colonize and explore the solar system. Future historians will see people like Ralph Nader for what they are instruments of the capitalist class tasked with stopping technological progress that threatens capitalist class power. Nader is the face of an industry that has killed many people in America. Four years after these committee hearings. America was bombarded with anti-nuclear propaganda in the form of movies like the CHINA SYNDROME. Humanity can make electricity "too cheap to meter" with nuclear energy. The futurists of the 1940's were not wrong when they made that declaration. If electricity were free, many lives would be saved in both winter and summer because they would be able to use a heater and an air conditioner. It means no foreign military adventures to control petroleum resources.
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REVIEW OF THE LIQUID METAL BREEDER REACTOR PROGRAM
HEARINGS BEFORE THE AD HOC SUBCOMMITTEE TO REVIEW THE LIQUID METAL FAST BREEDER REACTOR PROGRAM OF THE JOINT COMMITTEE ON ATOMIC ENERGY CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES NINETY FOURTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION APRIL 29, MAY 1, 6 AND 7, JUNE 10, 11, 17, 18 AND 24, JULY 10 AND 17, 1975
VOLUME II
HEARINGS OF JUNE 18 AND 24 AND JULY 10 AND 17 AND APPENDIXES
REVIEW OF THE LIQUID METAL BREEDER REACTOR PROGRAM
HEARINGS BEFORE THE AD HOC SUBCOMMITTEE TO REVIEW THE LIQUID METAL FAST BREEDER REACTOR PROGRAM OF THE JOINT COMMITTEE ON ATOMIC ENERGY CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES NINETY FOURTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION APRIL 29, MAY 1, 6 AND 7, JUNE 10, 11, 17, 18 AND 24, JULY 10 AND 17, 1975
VOLUME II
HEARINGS OF JUNE 18 AND 24 AND JULY 10 AND 17 AND APPENDIXES
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Social Impacts
Tremendous distortions in our values and social institutions will be required in an attempt to live with an expanding nuclear power system based on plutonium and similar materials. It may be that in attempting to do the impossible - live with plutonium - we will create the intolerable.
A second problem concerns the proposal now under NRC consideration to build gigantic nuclear parks each containing perhaps 40 large reactors and related fuel cycle facilities. What will the impacts of such parks be on the structure of ownership and management in the utility industry? What are the potential political consequences such mammoth concentration of economic power?
Tremendous distortions in our values and social institutions will be required in an attempt to live with an expanding nuclear power system based on plutonium and similar materials. It may be that in attempting to do the impossible - live with plutonium - we will create the intolerable.
A second problem concerns the proposal now under NRC consideration to build gigantic nuclear parks each containing perhaps 40 large reactors and related fuel cycle facilities. What will the impacts of such parks be on the structure of ownership and management in the utility industry? What are the potential political consequences such mammoth concentration of economic power?
If America were to build numerous reactor parks with forty 285GW vapor core reactors, like the ones pictured above America could meet all of its energy needs. The parkes can be used to generate all of America's electricity, crack hydrogen for a hydrogen based transportation system, desalinate sea water for drinking and power maglev trains. The fact America has not done this yet shows we are the Bart Simpson of the industrialized world. We have a ruling class the does not care. They lack vision and are unwilling to change the status quo. America is not an innovative country. America represses innovation.
