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Originally Posted by debaser
Usefull energy on a scale that is [economically feasible] at present.
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Nuclear power plants are incredibly expensive.
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Originally Posted by debaser
Who? May the inhabitants downwind of Chernobyl, but then again the Russians are absolutely incompetant when it comes to nuclear safety.
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Forsmark, Sweden almost had a meltdown just last month.
BTW, the Russians are second only to the US when it comes to nuclear safety.
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Originally Posted by debaser
Coal fired power plants put more uranium into the atmosphere a year than are in the cores of nuclear plants. And the stuff in a fission reactor you maintain control of and bury, returning it to the earth in a less radioactive form than it came out.
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