Small Town Nukes

fission nuclear power plants are no bueno.

just wait another few years until we get fusion power plants up, those are going to be awesome

Did I just read a "NOT" joke?

JanforGore is right on. Here are some facts for the skeptics:

"In the period to 2007, sixty-three major nuclear accidents have occurred at nuclear power plants. Twenty-nine of these have occurred since the Chernobyl disaster, and 71 percent of all nuclear accidents (45 out of 63) occurred in the United States, challenging the notion that severe nuclear accidents cannot happen within the United States or that they have not happened since Chernobyl."

Sources:
Benjamin K. Sovacool. The Costs of Failing Infrastructure Energybiz, September/October 2008, pp. 32-33.

Benjamin K. Sovacool. The costs of failure: A preliminary assessment of major energy accidents, 1907–2007, Energy Policy 36 (2008), pp. 1802-1820.

Btw, no one is saying converting to solar or wind or other renewable energy sources will be easy, but spending billions on nuclear plants that take decades to build is ridiculous, especially when you take into account the safety issues and the fact that nuclear plants produce nuclear waste.

Take your pick guys, either nuclear or fossil fuels. Guaranteed long term effects vs. potential short term catastrophe.

Solar isn't plausible is simply an ignorant line with no vision.
NUCLEAR KILLS. When are people going to understand this? As usual, I suppose we will need to see a catastrophe of immense proporations with loss of life... but then, that might not even phase the idiots who think nuclear is plausible. Yes, it is so plausible Wall Street won't even touch it. The advances in solar that we don't see or hear about make it more than plausible.

People who defend nuclear power have no idea of thewaste it leaves behind, for a long time.

I would be pro that IF nuclear waste was sent to outerspace.

As I know that in order to "save money" (while warmongering around the globe) governments wont do that, I stick with wind and hidro energy, thank you.

Clean and efficient.

Down with electricity! Let's pay way more for it! Yeah! What that guy said!

Then where do you suppose we get our electricity . No fossil fuels, no nuclear, then what do you suggest ? Solar really isn't plausible.

"One thing they also generate is NUCLEAR WASTE, which we have to deal with forever."

Exactly. There's that pesky little problem of nuclear waste that the industry keeps trying to dust under the rug!

Thanks for sending me this btw!
Jean

Check out how Vermont took a stand against the so-called nuclear renaissance that Pres. Obama's administration is trying to bring about:

http://current.com/items/92220725_victory-in-vermont-nuclear-nixed-in-the-green-...