I'm an angler/backpacker/MTB'er and these guys are IDIOTS.
Yes, nuclear waste is dangerous and must be securely stored. But it's overall amount compared to the tons and tons of sulfides that coal and oil power-plants produce is far more dangerous to ecosystems.
We could be producing googlewatts (kidding) of electricity via modern nuclear power-plants - and use the extra to produce H2 for fuelcells.
Environmentalist's plan would drain Lake PowellThe report comes just as engineers are arguing that dams should qualify for support as a "clean" technology under the Kyoto Protocol agreed in 1997. The commission will report its findings later this month at a meeting in Bonn to discuss the Clean Development Mechanism, a key part of the Protocol aimed at reducing carbon emissions worldwide. One surprise finding is that organic matter washed into a reservoir from upstream generates much of the greenhouse gas. The decay of forests submerged when the reservoirs fill up creates "only a fraction" of the gas. This means that the emissions don't disappear when the flooded forest has rotted away, but may continue for the lifetime of the reservoir.
Associated Press
November 7, 1996
Rotting vegetation in hydroelectric dams stokes global warming
by Fred Pearce
3 June 2000