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The US, at least, it unwilling to move nuclear power technology into this century so we continue to produce spent fuel that still contains 90% of its capacity to provide power, read this, especially #5: https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/5-fast-facts-about-spent-nuclear-fuel We don't really need more nuclear plants, we need better ones. Less plants - less targets. Also, in the 1950's the USAF had SAGE buildings on several bases. They could withstand a direct hit of an atomic bomb and a proximity hit from a hydrogen bomb. (of course, you could never go outside again). Protecting against non-nuclear war is easy enough - just need to do it. No point in protecting from nuclear war - that's the end.It was announced many years ago that the US had a 500-year supply of natural gas at the predicted usage levels over those 500 years - don't know if true. Clean Natural Gas (not what you have at home), it MUCH cleaner than coal, gasoline or diesel and MUCH dirtier than nuclear. However, if we had switched to natural gas 30-40 years ago, we would not be in talking about global warming so much. Yes, the coal industry would have been hurt. The oil industry, not so much. They still burn off the natural gas they are getting for free from their oil wells!SAGE: I toured this one twice as a Boy Scout. The outer walls were 18-foot-thick reinforced concrete. There was one window in the massive doors that lead to the freight elevator. The technology was amazing for the day. Thousands of racks of computer equipment running radar systems to keep track of the air and LOT of servicemembers sitting at round radar screens with a "light pen". They would point at a radar blip and the target was identified as friend or foe. http://www.fortwiki.com/McGuire_SAGE_Direction_Center_DC-01 They cost a fortune and were outdated quickly as computer and radar technology improved. The computers were all vacuum tube based.
The US, at least, it unwilling to move nuclear power technology into this century so we continue to produce spent fuel that still contains 90% of its capacity to provide power, read this, especially #5: https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/5-fast-facts-about-spent-nuclear-fuel We don't really need more nuclear plants, we need better ones. Less plants - less targets. Also, in the 1950's the USAF had SAGE buildings on several bases. They could withstand a direct hit of an atomic bomb and a proximity hit from a hydrogen bomb. (of course, you could never go outside again). Protecting against non-nuclear war is easy enough - just need to do it. No point in protecting from nuclear war - that's the end.
It was announced many years ago that the US had a 500-year supply of natural gas at the predicted usage levels over those 500 years - don't know if true. Clean Natural Gas (not what you have at home), it MUCH cleaner than coal, gasoline or diesel and MUCH dirtier than nuclear. However, if we had switched to natural gas 30-40 years ago, we would not be in talking about global warming so much. Yes, the coal industry would have been hurt. The oil industry, not so much. They still burn off the natural gas they are getting for free from their oil wells!
SAGE: I toured this one twice as a Boy Scout. The outer walls were 18-foot-thick reinforced concrete. There was one window in the massive doors that lead to the freight elevator. The technology was amazing for the day. Thousands of racks of computer equipment running radar systems to keep track of the air and LOT of servicemembers sitting at round radar screens with a "light pen". They would point at a radar blip and the target was identified as friend or foe. http://www.fortwiki.com/McGuire_SAGE_Direction_Center_DC-01 They cost a fortune and were outdated quickly as computer and radar technology improved. The computers were all vacuum tube based.
