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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