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?
You are missing the point, nuclear power is a pipe dream and not cost effective. Boil water for 30 years using nuclear reactions and then spend hundreds of years storing radioactive waste byproducts.
Only governments (taxpayers) can afford to fund nuclear plants. Left to private enterprise, no nuclear plants would be built.
Natural gas is in abundance here in the US. Good for fueling turbines to piston engines.
I’d be all in favor of nuclear power generation if it were safe but it being safe is just not true.
There are nuclear dump sites all over the US that are just disasters when it comes to cleanup.
Euroland fixes fuel prices to discourage use. If the US current administration is trying to follow this scheme, I hope it fails.
Hiding behind that nuclear fallout (esp. cumulatively) can’t be proven to cause cancers and such, is a piss poor way to back an argument.