Reply #2: Everything in technology is a tradeoff and a risk.. [View All]

[ddeclue]

I'd much rather have nukes than to keep burning coal, polluting the atmosphere with heavy metals, soot, other particulates, NOx's, SOx's, and greenhouse gases COx's by the thousands of tons everyday as we do now. These ALSO pose cancer, cardiopulmonary and other health risks as well as environmental risks just in NORMAL operation, not an accident.

To put it in perspective, as bad as Chernobyl was, only 50 people have died from the radiation effects of Chernobyl. Coal plants kill more than that every year in NORMAL operation from their pollution.

And no, I'm NOT a Republican, I AM a Democrat before you bash me and call me a Freeper.

(Please read my posts at www.brainshrub.com/blog/121, in fact my current post is on renewable energy, ANWR, and energy independence, and the environment.)

I'm just an engineer and understand that nuclear power is not the bogeyman that lay people think it is.

Doug D.
Orlando, FL