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On Aug 28, 12:45 am, calderh...@yahoo.com wrote:
> The American people have been brainwashed by irrational environmental
> groups who do not know what they are talking about when it comes to
> strategic energy issues.
>
> 1) France relies totally on nuclear power for electricity, and France
> has the cleanest air and lowest electricity rates in Europe!  What's
> wrong with that?  The newest nuclear power plant designs are extremely
> safe, and cannot burn up like Chernobyl because they do not use
> graphite as a mediating device as the ancient and dumb Chernobyl
> design.  Nuclear power has been the absolute safest energy source
> America has used in the last 50 years!  Compared to the other sources
> of energy, nuclear energy is bargain basement cheap!
>
> 2) We already have all the fuel we need to run America on nuclear
> power in the form of nuclear weapons materials, which can be converted
> into nuclear fuel rods.  We do not have to import anything to produce
> nuclear energy.  All the money, jobs, and tax revenues stay right here
> in America, which will create a boon to our economy.  We do not need
> to fight any foreign wars to protect our supply of nuclear fuel,
> because we already own it, and it is already paid for.  In that sense,
> nuclear power is FREE!
>
> 3) Old nuclear fuel rods can be processed into usable nuclear fuel
> rods again and again, because only a small portion of the fuel rod is
> used up during each fuel cycle.  We have enough nuclear fuel on hand
> to last for centuries.  There is no need to store large amounts of old
> rods, because they can be used again and again.  There is no nuclear
> fuel storage problem.
>
> 4) Coal is cheap up front, but causes massive green house gas
> emissions, and releases tons and tons or radioactive material and
> deadly mercury into our skies due to the natural uranium and mercury
> content of coal.  The total long term costs of coal, including
> structural damage to buildings from air pollution, and damage to
> people's health, makes coal far more expensive than nuclear energy.
> The mercury now found in ocean fish comes from burning massive amounts
> coal for electricity production, the mercury content of which ends up
> in our oceans and the fish we eat.
>
> 5) If you want to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, you have three
> choices: nuclear, nuclear, or nuclear.  There is no other way.  We can
> heat our homes with it, run our cars with it, and it can 100% replace
> fossil fuels as an energy source.  The bio-fuel hoax is ridiculous
> because there is not enough land on earth to produce enough fuel and
> at the same time feed the world's population.  Even the small amount
> of bio-fuel we are currently producing has doubled the cost of corn,
> chicken, milk, and other important food products.  We have double
> digit inflation for the cost of food thanks to the bio-fuel hoax!  The
> bio-fuels just cause more pollution, more deforestation, more global
> warming, and more starvation.  Bio-fuels are a MAJOR DISASTER!
>
> We have to grow up and realize that we cannot make an omelet without
> cracking some eggs, and making hard choices.  Our backs are up against
> a wall, and we have no other legitimate choice but nuclear energy.
> The American people need to educate themselves on this important issue
> because our common fears and conceptions about nuclear power are all
> wrong.  Many have been duped by lunatic environmental fringe groups
> rather than educated by people who actually now what they are talking
> about.  If you don't want to cut down all our forest to grow bio-
> fuels, eat polluted food and breathe polluted air, and starve the
> worlds peoples, or go to war to protect oil supplies, then we have to
> start building safe, reliable nuclear power plants NOW!
>
> Christopher Calder

Excellent and rational points.  Nuclear power should be investigated
further as a viable energy source.