Chu: Congress Should Consider Nuclear in Mandate

[NickB79]

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=12333786

"Energy Secretary Steven Chu says that Congress should consider including nuclear power and other nonrenewable sources in a mandate for utilities to use more clean energy.

Chu's call, made at a summit on nuclear energy Tuesday, could help win over Republicans who have opposed a mandate focused exclusively on renewable sources such as wind, solar and geothermal. Efforts to pass that mandate, known as a renewable electricity standard, have stalled in Congress.

The nuclear industry has been pushing an alternative clean energy standard. Chu said such a standard could include sources such as clean coal and nuclear, along with renewables."


This should be interesting :popcorn:

[GliderGuider]

1. "Nuclear power - the other alternative energy"

"That would make a catchy slogan," thinks I to myself...

[joshcryer]

2. LFTR/IFR please.

[NickB79]

3. Wow, this thread garnered way fewer comments than I expected

Based on other posts about expansion of nuclear, I thought this thread would be hot as hell.

I wonder why that is.