BobR wrote:

First of all, I have never said that nuclear power is bad. As for
France being an enlightened socialist utopia...you have got to be
****ing kidding! They are a bunch of idiots and I wouldn't not follow
their lead to heaven. What I am asking is that we NOT ignore the
problems with nuclear power as we have so often done with everything
else. The issue of disposal or reprocessing or whatever is needed to
deal with the waste from nuclear power must be delt with before we
expand the problem and find out we don't have solutions. Its time we
start dealing with the problems BEFORE they get out of hand instead of
having to deal with the consequences forever. I really don't care if
it is a technical issue or a political one, deal with it now.

That's putting the cart before the horse!

When you build a house, or a shed, or a concrete driveway, do you
immortalize your plan for disposing of it when it's time to tear it down? Or
do you go ahead with the construction, thereby fulfilling a current need,
secure in the knowledge that, when the time comes, you can find a solution?

It is the American way to believe we can overcome every obstacle. We always
have and, inductively, there's no reason to believe we will ever fail to do
so.

Those who say "maybe we can't" are on the side of the terrorists!