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6. Nuclear power is not the answer to our energy needs
Thu Mar 24, 2016, 01:59 AM
Mar 2016

In fact it is a negative with the radioactive spills and waste. These plants are for making a company money and the owners don't care enough about safety, because that costs them.
It does produce CO2 in the process of mining and construction of plants. It takes a tremendous amount of money to build and the risk is on the consumers if there is an accident or if they chose not to finish the plant consumers still have to pay for it. ( it has happened). Too many plants are running beyond their planned life expectancy and are going to leak more and more. They take too long to build and I don't want a new experimental nuclear plant in my neighborhood.
We don't know how to fix Fukushima which is still leaking radio activity into the Pacific Ocean.
Bernie is right again!

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