President Nixon: Address to the Nation About National Energy Policy. (1973)

President Nixon: Address to the Nation About National Energy Policy.(1973)

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What if Nixon had developed the molten-salt reactor at that time?  It was recently ( in those times since it was the 70's) proven in the lab.  The only thing left to do at that time was to commercialize the technology.  What if he had proposed that instead of those comical proposals that he outlined in that speech?  What if he didn't kill molten-salt technology, and had developed it instead?

It would be an entirely different world today.  Much wealthier, cleaner, and safer.

It would cleaner because the technology would have enabled carbon free energy technology---without the byproducts of other pollutants that fossil fuels spread into the environment.  Not to mention the need for mining the fossil fuels themselves.

The "wastes" of fission would actually be usable in many cases.  Those that weren't could be stored in 300 years, and then they would be safe.  Compare that with the thousands of years of storage required for wastes from today's reactor technology, which is technology that's mired in the 50's.

We would be wealthier because we wouldn't have imported TRILLIONS of dollars worth of oil into our country.

We would be safer because those imports finance hostile entities, like the ones who attacked us on 9-11-2001.   The reliance on fossil fuels is what enables Russia to dominate Ukraine.  It would free captive peoples.

The truth will set you free.  Learn about the truth.  Learn about molten-salt reactor technology.  See if you would agree with what I write here that it would be a good thing to have for the good of all humanity.