[Jersey Kid]

Nukes are not as clean as you think also. It takes about 1,000,000 tons of Uranium ore to refine it into 100 tons of 2% U235 for fuel rods. You have to move it around and get rid of radioactive leftovers (that's millions of tons). Than you get all nuclear power plants releasing radioactive gasses Kripton, Radon ect.(on regular basis), something that you don't hear that often, preventing their build up inside the reactors. And the last thing, what to do with millions of tons of "used" fuel rods ? Send them to space ??? One mistake and the Entire east coast is contaminated...

[John Jamieson]

Poor Japan and France.....they're doomed.

[narby]

I'd like to see that same level of analysis on a coal strip mine. Gas/oil wells, same thing.

Using any form of energy you can think of kills people.

Since I've never seen the scrutiny of energy like the anal exam of nuclear (what was the cost, $10 billion, just spent so far on one silly mountian in NV for studies. And they want to continue studies another 10 years!) I'll just assume that these other forms are just as dangerous. But they're just not quite as politically incorrect.

[stboz]

...what to do with millions of tons of "used" fuel rods...

You process them to recover unused fuel and to recover plutonium to make more fuel. You then exercise good engineering judgement and manage the remaining high-level wastes where they will not get loose in the environment.

You also quit wetting your pants worrying whether someone will steal them and put them in the mashed potatoes in school lunchrooms.

[Wonder Warthog]

Y'know, if you actually knew something about the details of nuclear power, you'd be dangerous. Just about everything you wrote is wrong.

[jackbill]

And the last thing, what to do with millions of tons of "used" fuel rods ?

Recycle them, as the French and others are doing. And as we would be doing except for the peanut farmer.