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June 5, 2007
Burning Question
Yay or nay to nuclear energy?
For more on this, read today's A Nuclear Revival: Are We Ready, Willing and Able?
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5 CommentsGO for nuclear and push the research for the fusion design.
But what will it take to get the politicians off their ___s and do something real re nuclear waste? If not now, this certainly will be a very real bottleneck in the system.
What we do now is just plain weird!
June 5, 2007 3:57 PMAll the money this country has blown on Iraq could have paid to put solar energy in every house in the country. No nukes. No oil. No profit. Oh well, maybe in my next life.
June 5, 2007 4:22 PMNuclear energy has been and will be our best bet to rid ourselves of the need for foreign energy. Regardless of the risks from disposal or terrorists, it is the future.
If thirty percent or our heating and cooling dollars went to nuclear instead of fossil fuels, the air would be cleaner and our costs in this country for all of the basics would drop like a stone.
Unfortunately, it takes years to build a plant, and the bleeding heart liberals will never let progress happen..
June 5, 2007 4:53 PMGlobal warming is a reality, but nuclear is not the answer.
We should be spending heavily in solar and wind generation. We should be looking for technology that would enable us to capture energy from all of the waste we produce. Anything but more oil, coal, and the radioactive contaminate pollution that never dies from nuclear.
For the survival of future generations and humanity as a whole, the energy conglomerates and their allies need to change products, before earth is past the point of its ability to recover.
June 5, 2007 5:47 PMNuclear power stations are expensive to build. That is the only factor to consider as opposed to Hydro, Wind, and Solar. Whichever is the most cost effective system to build, build it.
Hydro and wind do not pollute.
Nuclear is the only one that faces opposition from those who know little of it. I say, the risk is easily manageable and poses no real threat. It simply must be handled correctly and it too would not pollute. I see no problem burying it deep in the rock as long as it is maintained dry and secure.
Each method of electrical power production requires maintenance, so cost remains the only factor to consider.
June 5, 2007 8:55 PM
