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The thing with nuclear energy is the waste is concentrated.
With coal plants, the waste is unconcentrated and spewed out into the atmosphere over decades.
With nuclear plants, the waste can and is concentrated, and stored indefinately.
Really, I think we can simply take all the nuclear waste, mix it with 100,000 parts air and water, and spew it out into the atmosphere: there would be fewer deaths, less radioactive substances, and less environmental damage than the same amount of energy generated from coal...
(This assumes, of couse, we aren't an idiot and build a chernobyl. Chernobyl is the rough equivilent of a coal-fired plant so badly managed that it burns down an entire city, except on a larger scale.)
The concentration of nuclear power means that the danger isn't felt to be socialized. The danger is where the waste is, or where the plant is.
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Last edited by JHVH : 10-29-4004 BC at 09:00 PM. Reason: Time for a rest.
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