I’ve been reading where there is no where to store nuclear waste except onsite where nuclear plants create its own wastes. Along with existing older nuclear plants applying for extended operating permits because creating more waste is cheaper than storing expenses of existing nuclear wastes when subsidized by taxpayers.
Japan used the same arguments of rolling brown outs and higher ratepayer fees if their nuclear power plants had to shut down due to the Great Earthquake and tsunami ramifications. Now all but one of about 52 nuke plants are shut down there, soon to be zero because they can’t pass newer stress tests parameters.
In the meantime, Fukushima still has (3) unconstrained melted cores polluting the environment with nuclear fallout...at least Chernobyl’s meltdown was temporarily capped with concrete.
Germany elects to shut down their nuclear program while the US approves another nuke plant, go figure.
You said,”I’ve been reading where there is no where to store nuclear waste except onsite where nuclear plants create its own wastes.”
There IS a place, that has been tied up by the enviro-weenies. It is called Yucca Mountain and would be a GREAT storage facility.
ADDITIONALLY, we have stopped the reprocessing of waste to retrieve the 70% still usable U-238 from spent fuel. Again the greenies (via Carter) shot that down.
They are trying to KILL all methods of energy production in theis country. You seem to have swallowed a big gulpp of that Kool-aid.
Japan has been the site of a couple nuclear ‘incidents’. Yet there is a large population there, that today does not evince drastic changes in health. Flame me for that if you wish. ALL technologies have risk. One must balance the benefits.
Germany also has 6 or 7 dollar gas, wanna join them in that too?