Are mini-reactors the future of nuclear power?

Are mini-reactors the future of nuclear power? The U.S. government is investing millions of dollars in what it considers a promising new industry for American manufacturing: nuclear reactors. Morning Edition

China going Nuclear Power - Big. Economist

Nuclear power: Back on the front burner. China wants more nuclear plants than anyone else. Will it build them safely? There are now more nuclear projects underway in China than in any other country. The sheer number raises worries about safety. Economist

Thorium Nuclear - not the answer

Why Thorium Nuclear Isn’t Featured on CleanTechnica

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Rebuttals to Paper Criticizing Thorium

Eliminating Nuclear - No big deal

http://phys.org/news/2012-10-restricting-nuclear-power-effect-climate.html

Nuclear power is the Betamax of the energy world The Guardian

Nuclear power is the Betamax of the energy world

The Guardian (blog)-7 hours ago

So I think it is worth spending a little time talking about why nuclear power is the ... Even a group called Supporters of Nuclear Energy is now questioning the cost ...

The Nuclear Renaissance Is Back, Industry Panel Says

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffmcmahon/2012/09/27/the-nuclear-renaissance-is-back-industry-panel/ 

A Pair of MIT Scientists Try to Transform Nuclear Power

http://www.forbes.com/sites/pikeresearch/2012/09/27/a-pair-of-mit-scientists-try-to-transform-nuclear-power/ 

Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions by 2050: California's Energy Future

California Council on Science and Technology

Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions by 2050: California's Energy Future

California Council on Science and Technology - ‎15 hours ago‎

CCST has released the next report in the California's Energy Future (CEF) series, which focuses on exploring possibilities for California's energy strategy through the year 2050.

A crushing victory in bid to harness nuclear fusion power NBCNews

A crushing victory in bid to harness nuclear fusion power

NBCNews.com - ‎1 hour ago‎

A crushed tube the size of a thread spool has brought the United States one step closer to harnessing nuclear fusion as a clean, almost limitless, power source. The experiment at Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico tested how well a tiny ...

Anti-nuc Cultists throw millions / yr coal deaths under the bus

Anti-nuc Cultists throw millions / yr coal deaths under the bus

Millions die from coal pollution, every year.  Think how many more are sickened, brain damaged?

How many have died from nuclear plants?  Maybe zero, except for 1 accident Chernobyl.  

Do the non-nuclear coal deaths, millions per year, billions in the future, matter to the Anti-nuc cultists?  How about the hundreds of billions of condemned to planet Hell that 4th generation nuclear could be the key to saving?  Not important.  Blind obedience to their God of no-nucs is all they know.

See NASA's Dr. James Hansen on this in "Storms of My Grandchildren."

Full disclosure - for a long while I drank that cool aid.

http://www.examiner.com/article/kucinich-to-lead-1000s-anti-nuclear-pro-renewable-energy-occupiers

Nuclear Power: Is It Time for a Disruptive Technology? White House Chronicle

Nuclear Power: Is It Time for a Disruptive Technology?

White House Chronicle - ‎14 hours ago‎

The company that has revolutionized war in the air with Predator drones wants to do the same thing for nuclear power. It wants to soar away from today's reactor designs, rooted in the 1950s and the beliefs of Adm.