...been considering technetium for many years in the primary scientific literature. Now if I wanted to, I could talk for hours, without notes about the constituents of nuclear fuels or even just about techetium, but as for writing a post about it, just a few minutes.
Now perhaps if I were a rube, it would be different.
Perhaps if I were a rube, for instance, I might be selective in my attention enough to whine that it takes "too long" to build nuclear power plants- demonstrating enough ignorance of history, willful or otherwise, to understand the fact that the United States, using technology from the 1960s and 1970s built more than 100 commercial nuclear reactors while providing some of the cheapest electricity on the world. In addition these plants did not require back up fossil fuel plants which kill people whenever they operate normally.
And then to be even more of a clueless rube, I'd ignore that it has taken decades and trillions of dollars, the industrialization of vast stretches of wilderness to build wind and solar junk that have never, not once, in an atmosphere of mindless and destructive cheering produced as much energy as nuclear power does, and note also that both wind and solar, since both have capacity utilization of well less than 50%, require equal back up capacity, usually with dangerous fossil fuels.
Of course "solar and wind will save us" rubes don't care about fossil fuels. It bothers them not at all that Germany burns huge amounts of coal and gas and France, um, doesn't.
But I'm not a rube who thinks that posting links passes for wit.
I'm not trying to be witty when I say that the fossil fuel indifferent types here, wind and solar enablers of fossil fuel dependence, many of whom act as arsonists complaining about forest fires when complaining about nuclear build timelines, which are falling toward the figures achieved in the US in the 1970s, are not merely poorly read, merely poorly informed, but they are, apparently, incapable of looking in a mirror and seeing themselves as they are.
I'm merely stating an unshakable opinion.
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