Ever wonder why so many smart people think nuclear power is a good idea, and why so many reactionary hippies think it isn’t? As usual the answer comes down to who actually bothers with facts and who spends most of their time protesting things too complicated to reduce to a slogan they can chant at a rally.
“It posits that we actually spit out more raw tonnage of wasted uranium every year as a by-product of burning coal than we actually use in nuclear reactors.” – quote in context
Of course, while these people have managed to set back the intelligent generation of energy from atomic sources for 50+ years allt he while bitching about “technology” ruining their connection with what they thin is “nature” they have created a huge health problem.
- Coal Combustion – coal is a huge nuke hazard
- No Accidents in Over 30,000 Years! – MetaFilter