Reply #18: We Could build much better plants...if we could build plants. [View All]

[k2qb3]

Pebble-bed, Thorium, etc. etc. There are dozens of much better designs than these 1st gen BWRs, we could replace the old plants with modern, safer ones. We're learning a lot from this event too, there will be safety improvements as a result, particularly regarding spent fuel and emergency water supplies.

I'm all for renewable energy and a distributed production system, wind, solar, hydro, and so on, as much as is practical.

We're still going to need large continuous energy plants to provide for base load.

Conservation is also important but we still need more capacity rather than less if we're going to get carbon emissions under control.