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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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You aren't looking at the big picture.
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Originally Posted by debaser
The simple fact is that nuclear is the only commercially viable non-emission technology that exists presently, all paranoia to the contrary.
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Non-emission? Where do you think uranium comes from?
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Originally Posted by debaser
Free flow hyrdo is a great thing, but it makes a river un-navigable, which increases reliance on fossil powered land transport, which is far less efficient than water transport. It also effectively kills the economies of most inland communities in South America which rely on the rivers as thier primary transportation.
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By-pass channels.
And willravel is right, nuclear power plants can be ruinously expensive. A lot of money can be dropped into them (i.e. can go multiple times over budget) and they can still sit unused, waiting to go online at some unknown date.
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Originally Posted by Dilbert1234567
nuclear power is expensive because the y are outdated, we haven't built a plant in a long time. but look at France, 80% of there power is from nuclear, and they do just fine.
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Nuclear waste is an enormously difficult political problem which to date no country has solved. It is, in a sense, the Achilles heel of the nuclear industry. Could this issue strike down France's uniquely successful nuclear program? France's politicians and technocrats are in no doubt. If France is unable to solve this issue, says [Claude] Mandil [the General Director for Energy and Raw Materials at the Ministry of Industry], then "I do not see how we can continue our nuclear program."
"Why the French Like Nuclear Energy," Jon Palfreman, Frontline, PBS.org.
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