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Isn’t it ridiculous to expand nuclear energy in the US when the gov’t keeps saying how vulnerable nuclear…
…facilities, water supplies, and other public facilities are to terror attacks these days? When earthquakes can happen virtually everywhere (and even Japan recently had a scare when an earthquake was near one of their nuclear facilities)?
Nuclear people?
Yes, it is.
The biggest hurdle to overcome is, of course, what to do with all of the excess waste generated from increased usage of nuclear power. Currently, nuclear plants provide for nearly a quarter of the country’s energy needs. Now, imagine raising that percentage to 35, 50, or even higher and you have yourself a huge problem of where to put all of that spent nuclear fuel. Now, the reason why nuclear energy has been relatively viable in France (which gets more than 75% of its power from nuclear energy) is generally because they use roughly half the energy the US uses on a per capita basis, not to mention that their government has done a much better job of managing and even finding ways to reuse nuclear waste. Thus, even for nuclear energy to become viable in this country on a larger scale, conservation would still be needed simply to avoid overly excessive waste needed to be stored. One other problem: some of the waste sites are in geologically unstable parts of the country.
http://a4nr.org/articles/articlenukewaste
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