Going nuclear can be 'green'

NorthJersey.com ^ | 04.23.06 | PATRICK MOORE

[BlackJack]

Check out Thorium Power!

http://www.thoriumpower.com/english/about/history.htm

[RussP]

You are right on. You might be interested in my webpage on nuclear power at http://RussP.us/nucpower.htm . It features several articles by Bernard L. Cohen. Don't miss it!

[bondjamesbond]

Look at it this way: More than 600 coal-fired electric plants in the United States produce 36 percent of U.S. emissions -- or nearly 10 percent of global emissions -- of CO2, the primary greenhouse gas responsible for climate change.

This number I just do not believe. The rest of the World has been heaping the lion's share of consumption on the United States for so long, I don't think they even question the numbers anymore. It would be interesting to see some real figures on this.

[barkeep]

Since you bring in coal, another item you will not hear in the mainstream. Since natural radioactives are scaterred through the Earth's crust as trace elements, the burning of coal releases into the atmosphere literally several hundred pounds of radionucleotides every day. Nobody gives a damn for the good reason that as dispersed as they are, these traces would take very fine equipment to measure as a change in background radiation.

[Wiseghy]

Don't worry, he bailed on his support for it following TMI, pretty much ruining it in the country to this day.

How much CO2 and pollution has been pumped into our atmosphere as a result of his cowardice?