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Three Mile Island considers nuclear restart as Pa. lawmakers look to new tech to meet demand | StateImpact Pennsylvania

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It's crazy to me that policy makers insist that electricity generation has to be profitable. Just nationalize it. We could have a surplus of greenhouse gas free thermal power not only for electricity, but for heating and steel, fertilizer, and vehicle fuel production for years by now. Instead we have to wait to figure out how to satisfy investors and keep electricity just scarce enough.
- This is not how you get a surplus. This is how you get unreliable grid that's too expensive to operate and impossible to fix.
They'll do just anything to avoid implementing the obvious and proven solution.
- What is the obvious and proven solution?
  
  Renewables, of course.
- Obviously they are in the pockets of big data.
People might not know, but Chernobyl was never actually shutdown. The reactor that blew up was obviously shutdown, but the entire plant kept operating for decades after the disaster.
- Chernobyls relevance to tmi of course superficial.

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