I have had a habit of including original posts when replying. Now I find that many readers have taken the words of others as my own simply becaus they did not read down to the part that I wrote. My KMail program in KDE puts right carat '>' characters on the extreme left of all parts of an e-mail that was written by others, and no prefacing characters to the left of the post writer's. So now I will have to change the way I post and hope my readers will know to whom I have replied from the other context.
For nuclear power, everybody on this forum knows by now that I am a blunt and outspoken advocate for all things nuclear for the simple and single minded reason that it is the only power that we have right now whether fission or fusion cold or hot that we can take to space and have it with us to use. We simply cannot ride like Jules Verne on a cannonball to space and hope to live for long. Much less maneuver. I have only to add to Jed's fine post that we might as well build all the nuclear that we need and not worry that our materials or fuel will be stolen or misappropriated an used against us. The folks that mean us ill can get this from around the world. Two prime places probably are North Korea and Pakistan acting as public go betweens for a large and silent supplier, probably China. I have no proof of this, just a feeling from reading news reports from all over the world for many years. Recently China has been trying to lock up the uranium resources of Australia where forty percent of all the world's supply is located. We may want to look into building a full breeder program to extend the life of the supplies we are likely to be left with. The Chinese and the Japanese are. Standing Bear
