The Truth About Next Generation Nuclear Energy, Part IV

The Greater Efficiency and Lesser Waste Disposal Problems of GenIV Nuclear Reactors

If you don’t believe the fact that the corporate nature that is endless greed always will gravitate to policies that kill what is best for humanity in the name of profits, then obviously you did not listen to my podcast here, The Rise of Disaster Fascism, in which I described how the largest railroad companies in North America have unbelievably been unwilling to spend half a day’s worth of profits to exponentially improve rail cargo transport safety over the 160+ year-old, Civil War era brake systems they still deploy today. Or perhaps if choosing chemical disasters over safety, because regulations are so lax that paying fines is less costly than ensuring the health of communities along railway lines is not convincing enough, one should listen to this podcast about how many millions regulatory agencies like the US Food and Drug Administration kills on a regular basis because it sides with pharmaceutical companies over consumer safety over and over again.  And even before it became a fashionable trend to ridicule Peter Hotez’s loyalty to the pharmaceutical industry profit-over-safety based model, more than two years ago, I was excoriating Hotez for his uneducated views on this podcast.

If transportation corporations are unwilling to spend half-a-day’s profits to prevent toxic chemical spill disasters that kill thousands of Americans, how willing do you think the corporate energy industry is going to be in voluntarily killing their own profits to do the right thing and provide cheap and safe energy for all of humanity? Hopefully, I was able to present an unbiased view of the nuclear proliferation risks of GenIV nuclear reactors in Part I, Part II, Part III and Part IV of this series (all of which you may read by following the links) and the reasons why I believe that proliferation risk, due to the low levels that could be created and enforced with sufficient regulatory oversight and safety measures, should not halt the commercial production of GenIV reactors. Now, let’s discuss the even greater drop in our electricity costs that would happen with successful commercial production of the safest GenIV thorium fuel reactors.