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Originally Posted by NHartphotog
despite the fact that it is far safer than any other industry in the nation.
massive energy costs, and future grid unreliablity,
than an easy, safe and cheap source of energy whose entire 40-year waste can be kept indefinitely in a water-filled pool similar to a back-yard sized swimming pool.
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Are you for real?cheap? a plant costs no less than $10B and takes 10 years min to build. All plants have had 100% costs over run. The customers of the power companies have had their bills go up 400%
There is nothing cheap about nuclear power. For the price of the one plant which only is designed to last 25-30 years you could convert every home they would service to a renewable power source and eliminate the monthly electric bill.
Because companies have such huge outlays in these plants they don't want to decommission them. and they use them twice as long or more than they were designed for.
The waste is dangerous for 200,000 years. That is 100 times longer than the longest surviving government has survived. We can't clean up toxic landfills think we can track something for 200,000 years?
As to safe..
chernobyl gallery - Google Search
Tell those victims how great the safety record is. Here is the difference if a windmill has a catastrophic accident a cow dies in a field when a blade falls off. when radiation leaks biology is transformed. Come back in 30 years and tell the victims of Japan how safe it is and how cheap their power was when it worked, I'm sure they will value that opinion.
or could the victims end up being closer to home as the radiation clouds cover our country? or as those radioactive tides come our way? or the sea produces food you can't consume or deformities yet to be seen...
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it's one of the biggest in the world..
and the biggest one 
