Nuclear power inches back into energy spotlight
Utilities are poised to build a new generation of nuclear plants 30 years after the Three Mile Island accident, whose anniversary was Saturday, halted new reactor applications. The momentum is being driven by growing public acceptance of relatively clean nuclear energy to combat global warming. Full Story »
Posted by Mike LaBonte
The half life of the waste is longer than the lifetimes of most civilizations. No safe waste scheme has yet been invented. Nobody would even touch a nuke plan unless the government insures the very significant risk. This is the privatizing profit and socializing risk that has led to the current economic disaster.