March 1, 2022: The most important thing Joe Biden will not say...

Tonight at the state of the union, the President has the opportunity to learn from his mistakes, and move America toward a strategic shift that will accomplish his green energy goals, and make our country safer, while hurting our enemies. I will be shocked if he does it. The words he needs to say are, "we must increase our nuclear power in a significant way, more than doubling our generation capacity."

In 1973, France was in an awful position strategically due to the Arab oil embargo. Their country set out on a massive overhaul of their system, and they became still today the largest energy exporter in Europe. Norway has massive amounts of oil and gas, France does not, so how did they make this change? They built a lot of nuclear power and brought it online, and they built a nuclear recycling facility that has operated safely for decades.

"To create power, reactor fuel must contain 3-5 percent burnable uranium. Once the burnable uranium falls below that level, the fuel must be replaced. But this "spent" fuel generally retains about 95 percent of the uranium it started with, and that uranium can be recycled.

Over the past four decades, America's reactors have produced about 56,000 tons of used fuel. That "waste" contains roughly enough energy to power every U.S. household for 12 years. And it's just sitting there, piling up at power plant storage facilities. Talk about waste!

The sad thing is, the United States developed the technology to recapture that energy decades ago, then barred its commercial use in 1977. We have practiced a virtual moratorium ever since.

Other countries have not taken such a backward approach to nuclear power. France, whose 59 reactors generate 80 percent of its electricity, has safely recycled nuclear fuel for decades... Upon its removal from French reactors, used fuel is packed in containers and safely shipped via train and road to a facility in La Hague. There, the energy producing uranium and plutonium are removed and separated from the other waste and made into new fuel that can be used again. The entire process adds about 6 percent in costs for the French." 2007, Jack Spencer for Heritage.

Nuclear Power is safe, it is also expensive in America not because of intrinsic issues, but because of a regulatory framework that is idiotic. We are building a new plane each time with different components and different designs. We can become world leaders (we have the scientists) and spend in a massive infrastructure way that actually accomplishes something important.

Should we have stable baseline power that allows other forms of alternative energy to be used? Yes, and anyone who is pro solar or wind who does not support nuclear power is not well versed in the necessity of something like nuke or hydro power due to the variability of the other sources.

Russia, China, South Korea, India, all are expanding nuclear power, the United States is not.

Russia has money due to the massive amount of countries that need their oil and gas. The best long term shifts to reduce the power of Russia, Venezuela, Iran and other petro states is to produce so much electricity that we have industries moving away entirely from fossil fuel consumption, which means our oil and gas lasts longer, and we have reduced reliance on any foreign power for anything.

I think France has good food, but nuclear power is the only thing I want to copy from their domestic policy. Moronic politicians in France, Germany and South Korea have attacked nuclear power for no good reason, but in the United States it is even worse. We have prevented our world leading scientists from having the support they need and the changes we need to make to scale new nuclear power plants and nuclear fuel recycling that will give us stable and safe power generation until most of us on Facebook have shuffled off to our eternal destination.

If you are a Democrat, you should be demanding we have expanded nuclear power. If you are a Republican you should be demanding we have expanded nuclear power. In an era where our government fails in so many ambitious large scale projects, the expansion of nuclear power is something we can, and should accomplish.

Locally, the very place where Ukraine saw its nukes dismantled Oak Ridge National Laboratory can be a center for a nuclear renaissance that can remove the economic power of Russia and make Knoxville the prettiest place to change the world.

If you have questions about this, please let me know. I hope all my friends become strong advocates for nuclear power!