BWXT announces nuclear manufacturing plant expansion

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1. "All Electric" homes are not an unreasonable aspiration, mostly for air quality reasons.

Modern inductive stove tops, and heat pumps that work in below-freezing weather, are excellent replacements for traditional gas appliances.

People who insist on "cooking with gas" (with little consideration of air quality issues) might use synthetic bottled gas instead. The gas company could deliver this gas, just as some people buy bottled water.

Electric cars are madness. Plug-in hybrids using nuclear-derived synthetic fuels for longer trips would be superior in every way. But even better than that we could rebuild our cities, turning them into attractive affordable places where car ownership is unnecessary.

Short-hop airline flights can be replaced by comfortable electric high speed rail.

Longer airline flights, long distance trucking, and shipping can use nuclear derived synthetic fuels.

I just want clean reliable affordable electricity delivered to my house, thank you. I don't want to fuss with solar panels on my roof, batteries, inverters, or any other crap like that.

Okay, I actually do own a few hundred watts of solar panels, inverters, batteries, and associated crap. I wanted to develop some hands-on intuition about how this stuff works.

This small system did not make me a solar enthusiast. It only reinforced my objective opinion that nuclear power is the only energy resource capable of displacing fossil fuels entirely.