On: Nuclear plants in the US keep closing

[djern]

An article sponsored by GE that discusses how great nuclear power is? How surprising.

Yes Nuclear power doesn't emit greenhouse gasses, but to say it's clean isn't true either. Nuclear waste is particularly nasty, and the politics behind dumping it are concerning.

[yulaow → djern]

I know that you were downvoted for the first sentence, but the second is a serious problem and this is why in my country, with a referendum, we legislated against the use of any form of production of energy through nuclear fission.

Maybe it does not seem a problem UNTIL you found that some nuclear waste (and with some I mean A LOT) have been buried illegally and without controls not too far from your house [true story -> http://gizmodo.com/the-mob-is-secretly-dumping-nuclear-waste...]

[bsder → yulaow]

The problem with fossil fuels vs. nuclear is that everybody thinks of fossil fuels as SAFE. They are not.

"Nuclear waste is bad--but I'm okay with you guys destroying the Gulf of Mexico."

Dumping every ounce of nuclear waste we have at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico would cause less damage than Deepwater Horizon did.

And that's before you start talking about things like coal dust that actually adds MORE radioactivity to the environment than nuclear waste.