Believe it or not, America took a baby step toward energy sanity with federal approval of the first small modular nuclear reactor design. With efficient hydrocarbon energy under siege, and intermittent wind and solar unable to sustain the power grid, nuclear energy has never been more needed. GE quickly announced that it signed a contract to build the first North American reactor in Darlington, Ontario. Modular reactors can be built at manufacturing sites and then transported to their place of installation. The reactors are rated to produce up to 300 megawatts of 24/7, clean, reliable electricity. The reliability factor makes the reactors sorely needed wherever wind and solar leave the grid flickering and politics is interfering with the use of natural gas. This is particularly important as battery storage of wind and solar energy continues to prove neither affordable, nor practical. Nuclear energy also emits zero CO2 (if that's your thing).

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