And if you haven't thought about it....If, in fact, Bin Laden does have a dirty nukes...where do you think the radioactive material came from? There are safer ways to produce "energy" but of course none of the big oil companies would profit from them so they haven't been a concern.
We drop it on Afganistan so that they can compete with the Russians over who can produce the biggest poppies?
You are crazy all right, because you have swallowed the anti-nuke brainwashing sponsored by the oil companies throught their RICOnut front organizations. 20 years ago I thought as you do, until I did the homework. What do we do about the radioactive isotopes people breathe RIGHT NOW from combusted coal? There is more radioactivity released from coal in sheer tonnage than will ever be produced by reactors and a lot of it is inhaled or ingested directly into the body, not some theoretical scare story cooked up by someone with a grant dollar to hustle. One also has to consider particulates and other lovely byproducts of combustion from carbon monoxide, to NOX, formic acid...
There is no free ride, fella.
And if you haven't thought about it....If, in fact, Bin Laden does have a dirty nukes...where do you think the radioactive material came from?
Well it's WAY too late to do anything about that, isn't it? Were you out there putting up your money to retire those ancient Russian carbon pile reactors? Will you go running out there and beg North Korea to stop? So what does that have to do with domestic US reactors? Get a grip.
There are safer ways to produce "energy" but of course none of the big oil companies would profit from them so they haven't been a concern.
Most of which require more energy than they produce, especially photovoltaics. Look, I'm not going to spit out my total favored energy program here just for your benefit. Let's just say that it includes a mix of technologies including passive solar space and water heating (got a copper mine? Quarrying too, then there is the gas for the concrete...), possibly electrochromic windows (a lot of mining there too fella), fuel cells on propane for wider distribution (got a platinum mine? co-holders of BP already cornered that one), and nuclear for large scale centralized production.
What concerns me more than which technology is employed is that the assessment of risk is not objective, but political, and political decision-making serves the interests of those who buy the patronage. It is a corrupt and incompetent system. I would rather trust those who make a choice after they put up the insurance money than those who shoot off their mouths with a shrill and uninformed diatribe, forcing people to waste energy and time paying off rapacious attorneys and risking our security keeping the Saudis in power, and preparing to pay the currency transfer taxes to keep the UN awash in your money.
Sleep tight, Rockefeller loves you. Maurice will keep you safe from those nasty nukes...