The issue is not the average energy price across the country. The problem is local, where natural gas is produced in such abundance but cannot be stored or transported, they practically give it away, which nuclear (nor coal or any other generation method aside from hydro) can compete with.

Oops forgot to clarify, the decays are beta decay, where a neutron in the nucleus turns into a proton and ejects an electron and antineutrino.

After U-238 absorbs a neutron it becomes U-239, which decays (half life = 23 m) to Np-239, which decays (half life = 2 d) again to Pu-239.

If we built fast reactors, we would have enough fuel, in the form of depleted uranium sitting around idle in barrels at enrichment plants, to supply the entire planet's energy for about 1000 years.

The small increase in nuclear fuel price due to the ending of this program is insignificant. Fuel price is only a small cost of nuclear power, and enrichment cost only a fraction of that. The real problem for nuclear power is the bottoming out of energy prices due to the huge oversupply of natural gas from fracking. The latter being responsible for the closing of two power plants this year.

The vast majority of gun crime in the US is related to drugs or gang related. 50% of the gun crime in the US is perpetrated by 4% of the population in the 7 largest major cities (several of which have total gun bans already - New York, Chicago, etc). The gun crime in these areas is similar to that of other countries which have total gun bans, such as Mexico, Russia, Brazil, etc. These countries (and parts of the US) have high gun crime not because of lax gun laws, but because of a degradation of the rule of law and civil society. Most parts of the US, especially rural areas, have far less crime than anywhere in Europe.

Why do police carry guns then?

Spoilerish. Two astronauts tied together falling past a structure, once one of them grabs on and withstands the shock of the other astronaut snapping the tether taut, he should rebound back towards the secured astronaut, not dangle as if still being pulled by gravity. This would not be the case if, say, they were on a rotating structure or on a rocket making a significant burn but neither is the case.

My impression of that scene was that the cords tangling Bullocks' character were barely taught enough to stop her momentum and rebound, and if Clooney did not let go the cords would have broken at the other end leaving them both floating away. Like two people bungee jumping, while decelerating under tension, they notice the cord start to break due to excessive weight, so one guy detaches himself and falls to his death while the remaining elasticity of the cord is enough to save the other.

For the amount of money we spent on one year of so-called stimulus, we could have built ~300 new gen 4 nuclear reactors, converting the country to 80% nuclear power (the remaining being hydro in areas where it already exists). We have enough depleted uranium sitting around refined and unused in barrels at enrichment plants to supply fast reactors for about 10,000-50,000 years, without having to mine a single lump of ore. With all the leftover coal and natural gas, we could convert to fuel for transportation use. 100% energy independence for a 1000 years and tens of millions of new jobs. What did we get instead? Bailouts for unsustainable government union pensions and crony kickbacks. And guess who's going to be running our healthcare from now on? Lol.

If you recall, they did have the chance to not pass it in the first place and did not! The democrats used "budget reconciliation" and "deemed the bill passed" after they lost their crucial last senate seat vote when Scott Brown won Kennedy's seat!

Actually no, this isn't just a loophole, it is by design. Cutting budgets for programs is the principle way the house of representatives has to exercise their power. For example, if the President decided to unilaterally declare war, the only way congress would have to stop him is to defund the military.

What are you talking about? The republicans offered up a bill to simply delay the implementation of Obamacare for 1 year and the democrats soundly rejected it. Obama and Harry Reid can be heard on the news vowing "WE WILL NOT NEGOTIATE", comparing the republicans to Islamic terrorists! And you blame the republicans for not negotiating? You sir, have the situation ass backwards.

Only because government regulations mandate renewable power always be purchased, often times leading to negative electricity prices (i.e. power company pays you to waste electricity - nice perverse incentive!). This is basically the same as a tariff - a law meant to protect a particular industry even though its consequences on the whole are a net loss.

I hope that was sarcasm, otherwise you're an idiot.

Uh, neither do republicans, except for a scant few like Ron/Rand Paul.

The whole point of libertarianism is that there is no right person with power to bribe in the first place.