by Jeff Childers
Wednesday, Reuters quietly ran a totally anti-environmental story headlined, “US looks to resurrect more nuclear reactors, White House adviser says.” After its long nuclear winter in environmentalists’ gulag, nuclear power is about to become safe and effective again.
On Monday, White House ‘climate adviser’ Ali Zaidi (definitely not his real name), said the Biden administration plans to reactivate decommissioned nuclear power reactors to help meet soaring demand for “emissions-free electricity.” Wheee! Clean energy!
The article reported that two reactivations are already underway, including Michigan’s cold-stored Palisades power plant and the deep-frozen Three Mile Island reactor, which was the one that started the whole nuclear panic in the first place.
Not mentioned in the article is the fact that Microsoft signed a contract to buy bulk electrons from Three Mile Island — to power its new AI data center. Other nuke plants, long retired, are also scheduled for new leases on life, and the Administration is fast-tracking approvals for brand new mini-reactors called SMRs.
On Monday, the Navy requested permission to install SMRs on half a dozen of its bases. Does the Navy need more power for missile-defense lasers? A.I.-driven “hellscape” drone swarms? Who knows. But the nukes are back.
Later in the story, Reuters almost regretfully reported that offshore wind farms are slowly sinking into the sea, with flatlining demand for new mills, and oceans of technical problems swarming existing installations. It was a shock. Who could have possibly predicted that giant metal mechanical devices running day and night in salt water would result in vast amounts of expensive wear and tear? Not experts, that’s for sure.
Is the long climate graft reaching its desultory terminal destination, finally forced out by practical demands? Where’s Greta?
All those Anti-Nuclear activists should go live in a Grass or Mud Hut or a Cave and see what its like living without Electricity or Running Water its going to surprise them