This is half a kind of follow up on the last post, and half something I've been curious about for a while. And no, not about blowing up the world, but about what we might do instead with nuclear stuff.
Nuclear is kind of a taboo word, snce everyone always jumps to bombs when they hear it. But all nuclear is not bad nuclear. In fact, most isn't. We've been up-ing the electricity we get from nuclear power plants all over the world, making it a fuel source, if not a big one so far. And the best part: nuclear power is guilt-free. No-one gets hurt, the environment isn't affected, and you don't have to do as much mining.
The downside- all the stuff leftover (waste). Luckily, we're getting better at not killing lots of people and stuff. So let's be a little more optimistic. All we're doing is creating and ripping apart molecules to make electricity. Nothing wrong with that. No, I'm not being sarcastic.
China is starting to pioneer using nuclear in a big way- it's going to replace all of it's coal energy sources in Hong Kong with nuclear power. The city will be the first to run solely on nuclear power. This seems to show that nuclear is looking up, and possiblities are everywhere.
Someday, we may all have mini-reacters in our cars, getting us where we need to go. Yeah that may seem unlikely, but hey, you never know.
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