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Keith nuttle

wrote:
On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 21:09:24 -0300, "Don White"
wrote:

I didn't know the U.S. government was in the nuclear power plant building
industry. I'm quite liberal in my views, and I'm all for nuclear power.
Funny how I can do that, huh? I don't goose step to any party.
The Federal Government is in the Non building nuclear power plant
business. The regulations make it so.
Just where would you geniuses store all the spent radioactive materials
generated by these plants for the next 10 thousand years??

In Dick Cheney's bunker?

In the 1940 we made a concentrated effort to develop nuclear energy and
did it in about 4 years. We developed new process to separate uranium
isotopes to improve that energy source. In the past 40 years we have
spent trillions of dollars to develop thousands of years old
technologies to get new energy. (increase the gear ratios in cars to get
better gas mileage, try to convince people that wind energy abandon over
a century ago because of its unreliability, etc. )

If the government had gotten behind a program to extract the energy out
of nuclear waste rather than bury it, we would have a clean, reliable,
continuously available, energy source with no concern about storing the
waste as there would be none.