Re: Obama's excellent atomic omission


"trudogg" <independent@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Thu, 26 Feb 2009 12:09:05 -0800, "Ernie Jurick"
<invalidexample@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


"trudogg" <independent@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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[...I think the Prez is gonna regret cheerleading for clean coal.]

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Two lethal words went thankfully unspoken in President Obama's address
to the nation this week---atomic energy.

Unfortunately, two others---"clean coal"---were included.

Nukes are the only permanent solution to America's energy dilemma, and far
cleaner and safer than coal.

...the problem with nukes is waste storage.

The amount of waste produced by all nuke plants is insignificant next to the
waste produced by a single coal plant.

If and when they come up
with a way to neutralize the radioactivity of the spent fuel.

They have, decades ago. Nuke plants have the best safety record of any
energy-generating method as well. Not a single person has died of radiation
or poisoning at a commercial nuke plant in the USA. Despite the hysteria
over Three Mile Island, no one was injured, much less killed.

...it
truly will be the best solution to our energy problems. But to
proliferate nuke plants now without a good answer to the waste
problems is not a good plan.

As Allan says, the newest class of reactor creates neatly-packaged,
geologically stable waste. The biggest obstacle to reviving nuke power in
the US is public hysteria fomented by the anti-nuke crowd. France has been
generating 87% of its electricity for decades without harm. They even export
it to non-nuke nations, a situation the US would love to be in.
-- Ernie



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