In article , HeyBub wrote:
Dan Musicant wrote:

Nuclear? Clean safe and practical? Huh? Ask people in Eastern Europe
about Chernobyl.

Uh, nobody in Eastern Europe was harmed by Chernobyl - except perhaps to
their phobias.

Also, they haven't come up with a decent means of dealing with nuclear
waste. You cannot demonstrate that it's clean, safe or practical.

People concerned with that sort of thing have come up with MANY methods of
dealing with nuclear waste. These methods range from encasing the waste in
molten glass and dumping the ingots in the Pacific Ocean to shooting them
into the sun to storing them in salt domes.

None of the proposed solutions have been implemented because a solution is
not needed today. The longer we wait for a final decision, the better the
decision will be. In other words, we don't have to take steps until we have
to take steps.

I also see that anti-nukers will block implementation of any solution to
long term waste storage. Anti-nukers want their problems with nuclear
energy to remain unsolved, so that they can oppose nuclear power.

As a result, the barriers are political more than technical.

- Don Klipstein )