The Below was actually mine, so I am re-posting it here since I know that many ppl ignore ACs.

It is far far better for these companies to keep the sites open, running safe nuclear, while cleaning up the old mess.
In addition, just as we are looking to build new safe reactors, it would be useful to come up with a rail-road based plant that will take the old nuke waste, and convert it into fuel for reactors like transatomic's, or flibe's. Upon converting a bunch, or perhaps all, then the plant is simply moved to another site that is being decommissioned, OR, is itself sent to be decommissioned (too old; better tech; or perhaps just too contaminated).

And the lightwaters, while requiring more enrichment initially, will leave less after the fact, than what came out of the ground. IOW, like Candu, they also burn up a SMALL PORTION of it.

OTOH, MSRs, and IFRs can take what Candu and others can NOT use, and burn up 95% of it. And all at a fraction of the price

No, it really is NOT about the software. It is about a company that is not only copying an interface, but using all of the IP that others developed. It was Apple that FOOLISHLY moved their production, but then taught foxconn how to do it cheaper and with higher quality. Now foxconn is doing the same work for other companies, such as Xiaomi.

The more information that companies with MBA's send to CHina, the faster that they will get unfair competition that will destroy them.

Hmmm. While IFR would help, Candu will not. It is not a breeder.

yeah, I wish that we had editing on /. at times.

is that Xiaomi, and many other chinese phone makers, are using FoxxConn. So, Jobs funded a company, so that they can produce even more competition at a lower price that will steal any and all trade secrets from Apple.

Apple made the same mistake with Samsung and continues to do it in China.

The reason why the west is in trouble is because we became dependent on singular sources of energy. America at one time was at 75% dependant on Coal, though we are now, below 40% coal and dropping (America will be below 25% coal by 2020).
Europe, as a whole, actually hit over 80% coal, and still remains over 50% coal. However, with the situation with Russia, coal is expected to jump again.
China is currently at around 80% coal (and it is GROWING, not shrinking).

What these show, is that when you make a SINGULAR source be your energy, you do not have the capability to remove it fast.
What is needed is a diversified energy matrix, in which no singular source is above 33%, if not 25%.

I see nothing on there that makes it anti-nuke. I DO see him pointing out a REAL problem, which is that many of the old reactors are being extend past their lifetimes and NEED to be taken down. BUT, they really need to be replaced by new ones, not other forms of energy.

Darn it. After I posted, I realized that I had moderation power. I would have modded you up.
I consider my an environmentalists, but a sane one. Hell, the primary reason why I became Libertarian was because both dems and pubs are responsible for so much destruction.
We desperately need an energy mix, not depending on just ONE TYPE of energy. Right now the greenies push wind/solar. Yet, BOTH depend on the sun, which means that if say yellowstone erupts, or China attacks and uses clouds over America first (China is working very hard on weather control and they DO consider it a form of military weaponary), then we would lose much of our power at the very moment that we need it the most.

These sites have land close to cities (efficient), cooling, transmission lines, generators, etc. Basically, the problem with the old reactors is that they are old and are second generation.
What should be happening is that we should put on-site NEW multiple small 3+ gen reactors, such as mPower, to handle the loads, providing power/money for the company, while they take down the OLD reactors.

At the same time, we need to do a 4th gen reactor that will burn up the 'nuclear waste', and leave only 5% of the volume as well leave it safe in under 200 years (as opposed to 20,000+ years).

Yeah, it is far better that we spend many times more for your oil based car, or that our kids die protecting it.

LOL. You should have read a bit more.
2 of those were changed because edmunds THOUGHT that they MIGHT hear a rattle and that it was the drive unit. Basically, only one was real, and it was for the gearbox.

Actually, it was for the battery. Now it is the entire powertrain. The battery, the gear box; the motor; the inverter (which is with the drive unit).
My guess is that down the road, they will change this to be 10-12 years, once it is realized that their work has high quality and will stand up far better than an ICE will.

No, you obviously did NOT read TFS. 8 years/125K miles is for the 60 KWH pack. For the 85 KWH, it is 8 years and infinite milage. Go ahead and divide infinity by 96.

Gads, you must have REALLY lost major money on Tesla and Solar City by shorting them.
The fact is, that this man is making a massive change to our society.
I hate to think of what you would say about ppl like Einstein.