Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Obama to announce loan help for nuclear power | Reuters

Obama to announce loan help for nuclear power | Reuters

Nuclear waste, political fallout.

I'm quite sure that Barack Obama hasn't come up with a way to eliminate the danger from waste that stays toxic for half a million years.

He does seem to have come to the realization of the fact that never in the history of nuclear power has it produced one watt of electricity that wasn't heavily subsidised with taxpayer funds. No private industry has ever fully funded, or profited from, a nuclear power plant and the energy that it delivers without corporate welfare, whether in the US or France or elsewhere.

The President has also forgotten that if we decentralize, conserve, insulate, etc., much more can be saved in terms of money or carbon than with an infinite number of nuclear power plants.

At least we have elected a president who can pronounce the word nuclear.

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