“Well, if there is one thing this whole situation with Japan’s nuclear plant has ensured, it is that the enviroweenies will now have ABSOLUTE evidence (in their minds) as to why our country should NEVER build any more nuclear plants. I wouldn’t count on the U.S. EVER having nuclear power plants in the foreseeable future...”
I’m very sorry to have to agree with you. Nuclear is probably screwed for *another* couple of decades, at least. And the US will immutably pay the price in GDP, opportunities for growth (eg; jobs), external energy dependence and the resulting burden of higher fuel costs, and indeed, plenty of cancers and various lung diseases from people breathing the crap output by coal power plants. Plenty more than would occur from nuclear, that is a certainty. This is a heavy, heavy door being closed, I’m afraid.
Meanwhile Iran’s nuclear program will be cheered on by the same anti-nuclear American left.
Yep. Gotta agree with you. And what brings me to that conclusion is the amount of hysteria I see even among the ‘conservatives’ here on FR, especially females.
Never mind the actual numbers of coal miners dead vs. nuclear power deaths is a terribly lopsided loss for coal. Nah.
What matters here are “feelings.”
Welcome to the new, feminized America: A scant, hollow shell of what we used to be, but we’ll all be like Oprah and emote our way forward into riches.