| Many folks are against nuclear energy and when you | | | | And did you know that all the radio-active material |
| ask them why they bring up Chernobyl and Hiroshima. | | | | that mankind has ever needed to store, can fit on |
| Yes, these are historical events that where quite | | | | the floor of a high-school gymnasium? Blowing out of |
| problematic, but should that really keep us from | | | | proportion the nuclear waste issue is misleading and |
| building nuclear power plants in the United States? | | | | dishonest in my opinion. Yes, long-term storage is an |
| Another huge issue is one with nation-states that are | | | | issue and radioactive decay lasts forever and a day, |
| rogue nations, dictatorships or have so much civil | | | | as compared to human life-spans. |
| unrest that they could easily topple; what if enriched | | | | Still, the solution is not more than 50-years away |
| uranium gets into the hands of terrorists? | | | | anyhow. Humans will figure it all out; they always do |
| Well, yes, these are concerns and yet, we noted | | | | when push comes to shove. We need to find ways |
| that the shipment of uranium from Budapest to | | | | to store it for 150-200 years max, by then |
| Siberia made it there okay, 300 plus pounds, humans | | | | technology will be available to deal with it and delete |
| are dealing with these issues of waste, storage and | | | | the problem all in one swoop. Modern day particle |
| keeping the material in check. There are storage | | | | physics has come a long way and it we will continue |
| areas available and the radio-active material can | | | | to learn more. |
| always be shot into the Sun one day, when we have | | | | We should not fear nuclear power, we should |
| safer space vehicles to get it away from the planet | | | | embrace it, but carefully monitor its use in the world. |
| and send it to its final destination. | | | | So please consider this. |