Yeah, Dave's quite correct - how do you figure that nuclear is any *worse* than other sources?
Nuclear power could be *greatly* improved with the introduction of fast breeder reactors and waste vitrification. Reduces the hot lifetime of the waste 10-fold, and makes it solid. Long term storage at that point becomes a hell of a lot simpler, and more options open up.
Personally, I'd much rather have known, centralized quantities of toxic byproducts than the current situation where everyone is spewing a little bit here, a little bit there, and no one can contain it.
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