okay. first of all, let's just agree that earthquakes and terrorist attacks are planned for but could imaginably cause some minor elevated risk to a nuke plant. Enough said about that, please.
Where should the waste go? Into depleted uranium armor piercing shells? Into yucca mountain? Into nuclear weapons? How does the waste get there? Doesn't the waste last, like, more than a few hundred years?
I fully believe we should invest heavily in wind, solar, and discovering new ways to exploit renewable energy. My church has a geothermal heat pump; it cost only slightly extra and after a few years (I forget the projection) it should have paid for itself. We should also pimp the fuck outta conserving energy but that will be more difficult, culturally and politically, in the USA.
None of that sounds revolutionary to me. The 2 second soundbyte of Obama's sounded to me like "Hey, we've got options. We'll need more than one approach. Nukes ain't my primary choice."
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