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2006-07-21 Science & Technology

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Posted by BA 2006-07-21 10:19|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Sometimes I think that any solution to the nuclear "waste" issue must be opposed by the environmental nutjobs. Because any solution makes nuclear seem a viable option. But even if all of the nuclear plants in the country were shut down today we still have the waste issue to deal with. It is not going to go away.

Posted by Cheaderhead 2006-07-21 15:22|| 2006-07-21 15:22|| Front Page Top

#2 This site is as good as it gets. We need it to have nuclear power in this country. We need nuclear power to reduce our geostrategic vulnerablity in the middle east and (at least according to some scientists though it is far from settled) to reduce carbon emissions.

Interestingly, the activists who oppose Yucca Mountain are often the same folks who want us out of the middle east and to sign the Kyoto treaty. Their positions are self-contradictory unless we return to the stone age.

For this reason I cannot take the Democrats (clearly the political party holding these positions) seriously on public policy.

Posted by JAB 2006-07-21 16:40|| 2006-07-21 16:40|| Front Page Top

#3 The father of one my best friends, a true JFK-style liberal, worked at one of the national nuclear labs. He's fairly left-progressive and dedicated green until you mention nuclear power. Then he goes ballistic -- what we needed, according to him, were fast breeder reactors, recycle all the fuel rods, incinerate the nuclear waste in the breeders, and have a closed loop for plutonium fuel.

Why? Because it's the least polluting of all our options, according to him.

I'd love to get him into the same room as the usual enviro-nnuts.

Posted by Steve White">Steve White 2006-07-21 19:07|| 2006-07-21 19:07|| Front Page Top

#4 Hallelujah Steve. Not only is the waste less radioactive, but the long lived radioactinides are burned in the breeder reactors.

Posted by ed 2006-07-21 19:12|| 2006-07-21 19:12|| Front Page Top

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