As far as the sci-fi refferences go... weren't Jules Verne and Gene Roddenberry both sci-fi writers? Let's see... space travel, submarines, automobiles for the masses, and oh, don't forget... cell-phones (they were even flip-phones, beam me up Moto)... maybe we should put those two in the same realm as Nostradamus, ya think?

Well, anyway, I certainly hope that wind/solar/hydro comes more to the forefront, even though I make a pretty good living working the NUC outages, being A PART of the industry, I'll tell ya... the on-the-job humor is mostly of the gallows variety. If they SAFELY shut down every NUC on the planet tomorrow, it wouldn't break my heart, although... it might dim the lights for a while.

I promised myself I was going to keep this light before I leaned into the keyboard, so I'm not going to let myself climb my soap-box... but as someone who is a small part of the nuclear industry, we'd all be better off without it, statistics be... well, you know.

Troy