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Where did you get that figure?

Sunflower, where did you get the $11 billion dollar loss of investment figure.  Your link deals nothing with that.  I would simply like to verify your source.On How to tell future generations about nuclear waste posted 3 years, 3 months ago 40 Responses

Wanna talk facts about safety?

Do we consider driving cars a necessity in modern times?  The answer is emphatically yes!

How many people died in America alone last year from motor vehicles?  47,200!!!  That cost Americans $245.2 billion dollars in just 2005 alone!!!  Check my facts: http://www.atsip.org/index.php/news/.

Now...Is powering our homes, cars (in the future), factories, and nearly everything imaginable a necessity?  We throw that away for a ONE isolated incident?

How many people died from a single, completely avoidable accident in unregulated EASTERN EUROPE?  112?  Are you kidding me?  That number isn't even a percentage of who we kill on our roadways in a single year....

Face the facts!  Nuclear is SAFE!  Nuclear is CLEAN!  I can get you facts on these as well.  Talk to an informed source before going to a fire-breathing, rumor spitting anti-nuclear activist.

Will people ever wake up from their fear driven false reality?On How to tell future generations about nuclear waste posted 3 years, 3 months ago 40 Responses

Can I see some facts?

I consider myself to be an energy activist.  To define that I would say that I am a chemical engineering student who hopes to pursue ways in the future to reduce and eliminate our need for any non-renewable fuel or energy source.  I have worked on research for fuel cells and many others.  Recently I have had the opportunity to intern in the nuclear field.

From this standpoint I feel that I have an informed basis from which to argue derived from my interning experience.

The issue of NIMBY (Not In My BackYard) is quite ridiculous.  Nuclear plants and fuel production facilities must meet strict coding requirements and have extensive buffer zones in order to even think about breaking ground.  The Yucca Mt. project is even more remote.  The mountain is in the middle of the desert.  If you go out to the facility you will see that even standing from the highest reachable point on the mountain, you will see nothing even remotely resembling civilization.  The spent fuel is to be stored deep underground, and the nearest water aquifer has been evaluated by geoligists to be completely isolated, and not drawn on from any domestic water source or otherwise.  This plan has been approved by congress.  

The only reason that there are spent fuel rods all over the US just sitting at nuclear plants is because Harry Reid will not allow the rods to go to Yucca Mt. regardless of the previous act passed.  

Rolling Harry's filibuster on the Hill is quite a difficult proposition, but if the other senators would get on board it could happen and that spent fuel can finally go where it was meant to.  Otherwise where have all of our tax dollars gone all these years (23 to be exact).  They have gone into military spending, government subsidies to less appealing energy, and a multitude of other wasteful government expenditures.

Before going on an emotional and unbased rant on any topic of interest it is best to look the facts first, then bring your hopefully somewhat more intelligent argument to the table.On How to tell future generations about nuclear waste posted 3 years, 3 months ago 40 Responses