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Hyperion Systems wrote:

> What I am saying is that nuclear energy is nice and clean, until the
> byproducts leave the reactor either by rail or by explosion.  Building
> nuclear reactors and then arrogantly assuming that they will withstand
> everything that nature can throw at them, forever, is just absurd.

> Assuming that humans cannot make a big enough mistake to melt one down is
> absurd.  Taking the waste, burying it in a big hole, and hoping it never
> gets disturbed is absurd.

    That's why there's maintenance, shut-downs and new plants being built.
Sure, the plants won't last forever, you don't use them forever. As far as
human error is concerned, there are many redundant systems to prevent a
foul-up, but they still can happen. It's a risk you have to take. You can't
sit there and say WE SHOULD'VE, WE COULD'VE and tell everyone that we have to
stop the world to suit your security. Nobody did much research on solar,
because the cost/effectiveness ratio is out of proportion. Nowadays, solar IS
being worked on.  BTW: if you're so damned keen on shutting down nuclear power
plants, why don't you go out and INVENT a better alternative. Don't expect
everyone to wait on you hand and foot.


> If we had spent as much money devloping solar and wind power as we have
> spent to get oil out of the ground and trying to decide what to do with
> nuclear waste, we would all be probably paying next to nothing for
> non-polluting energy by now.  THOSE are clean energy.  It's amazing, you
> walk outside on a sunny day, and you can literally FEEL the energy raining
> down from the sun, yet we use very little of it in that form.
>
> How stupid are we?

     It would seem that you're too stupid to know that the "energy" you FEEL
raining down on you on a sunny day is a form of RADIOACTIVE waste!

Wil Maxwell
wmaxwell@geocities.com

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