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having said that the thing that I worry with concerning nuclear power plants comes home to roost every time I read something about Fukushima or Chernobyl. The potential for going wrong is so great and there's just not much humans can do once it does. Our life spans aren't long enough to ever see the end to it so it seems it's permanent. I know that given enough time it will be all but forgotten and not much of a threat going forward but that time is not measured in days, weeks, months, years but rather in lifetimes, human lifetimes. Thats way too permanent for me. I'd really like to see a safer more sustainable way of using the energy of splitting atoms and keep hoping against hope that it will be discovered but as it is today that day is still in the future. The new smaller nuclear power plants show promise but the problem with them is we'll have to site too many of them to do us much good and with each one the chance of something going wrong grows.
After all the pro's and con's are sorted out my thoughts is that we'd be better served if we'd move away from Fission. Just too dangerous and too permanent when things do go wrong. As with any machine, (a nuclear power plant is a big ass machine after all,) there will be mistakes made both in making it and in operating it. With nuclear the potential is greater than with more benign forms of producing our energy for that mistake to cause great harm and last for a long time. Burning anything is not the answer though as its killing us as sure as the sun comes up in the east and sets in the west. We're on borrowed time so we have to do something and that something had better be right is all I know for sure today. We're running out of time to get this right.
In my personal life every time I let money make a decision for me it turns out to be a bad decision so to me cost should be taken into consideration but not be the deciding factor. Thats a lesson I've lived long (66 YO,) in learning