Reply #2: And there is one other big if [View All]

[MadHound]

If they can eliminate the largest cause of nuclear accidents, human error. It is doubtful that they can solve any of these problems either in the short or the long run, therefore we need to steer our energy policy away from nuclear. It is too risky, and we have other options that provide truly clean, cheap, and problem free energy.

The first one that comes to mind is wind energy. In 1991 the DOE found that there was enough harvestable wind energy in three states, North Dakota, Kansas and Texas, to power the entire US electrical grid, including factoring in for growth, through the year 2030. And that was with '91 tech, wind power has made huge technological strides since then. In fact America has been called the Saudi Arabia of wind power, due to our vast renewable wind resources across the Great Plains.

So rather than go with a nuclear policy, which is a disaster waiting to happen, and would once again strap us to a finite resource mainly controlled by foreign countries, we should invest in a domestic, renewable energy policy, featuring wind and solar.

Anything else is foolish and a catastrophe waiting to happen.