You vastly underestimate the ability of governments (especially the US government) to come up with byzantine regulations that raise the cost of doing business, regardless of whether those regulations have any actual linkage to the safety or efficacy of what is being regulated. Your profitability point supports mine - nukes good for shareholders, not for electricity consumers. And in some cases the profitability is due to plants that changed hands on the cheap, leaving the new owner free of the initial capital costs.

I think it's pretty safe to predict that if fusion-based power plants are ever built at full-scale the cost per kilowatt won't be any lower than from whatever competing technology is generating the bulk of a country's power at that time. Between the onerous regulatory requirements that will be put in place, the greed of the contractors building the plant and the shareholder demands of the utility company we'll never see truly low-cost electricity. The fossil fuel problem may be solved but your pocketbook won't feel any better. Witness how expensive nuke plants got from first to last in the US.

Spock's Brain. Unforgettable line: "Brain and brain, what is brain?" (Stomp foot for effect)

I thought it was because some Russian mathematician missed a minus sign somewhere.

Already been established that they were able to overcome the rag and get the satellite into a functional orbit where it can fulfill its mission objective. http://www.spaceflightnow.com/atlas/av019/120103rescue.html

Flight 93 made passenger aviation less interesting to terrorists than smaller aircraft would do and anything the TSA can do.

Fewer traffic lights = Fewer traffic tickets Fewer traffic tickets = Less revenue for municipality Less revenue for municipality = Higher taxes needed to replace traffic ticket revenue Weak connection at best

Nope, she saw Kim Kardashian walking away from her.

You must not have SiriusXM radio. Same channels coast-to-coast, most with no commercials. Infinitely better than static-filled AM and short-range FM local channels. SiriusXM radio owner, not investor.