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Yes, that is correct. The incident lasted fifteen hours, and the only damage was that the fuel core left an indentation of about an inch in the bottom of the containment vessel. I think nuclear should be the preferred alternative until we can wean our economy from fossil fuel dependence, and at the same time stimulate more investment/advancement in other alternative technologies.

This is precisely the same bilge water the anti-nuclear KOOKS spewed back in the 1980s, as if nuclear waste has EVER hurt anyone in this country EVER.

Your arguments don't work anymore. Give it up. The nuclear industry has grown by leaps and bounds and your argument is stuck in 1979.

First of all the term "nuclear waste" is almost a lie because the fuel rods which come out of the core the first time still have about 95% of their good useable energy still in them. Once they are reprocessed, the amount of spent fuel left over is relatively TINY. Just ask the French. They store all of theirs in a small facility within their own country. Now, where else in all of known reality does anyone advocate the burying of any fuel which still has 95% of its energy left in it? Aren't you FOR recycling? Remember, we are talking about massive amounts of electricity from very small amounts of material to begin with.

Half Life? Do you even know what you're talking about? We're talking about tiny amounts of radio-isotopes which often get used in nuclear medicine to HELP CURE people of cancer. Yes, an even smaller amount is poisonous and cannot be used, and it can and is stored. The sad reality is that we have been storing much larger amounts of spent fuel because we have refused to do the smart thing like France, Japan and Great Britain do, REPROCESS IT!

We have had over 100 nuclear power plants in this country for decades and NOT A SINGLE person has EVER been killed from it. We have been storing our nuclear fuel after it's been through the reactors once on each power plant site, because people like you refuse to let us reprocess (recycle) it. This utter stupidity created the red herring, Yucca Mountain which is a grand waste of money we do NOT need to spend. We already reprocess the nuclear material from old Soviet nuclear weapons, and we put it back in our own reactors to keep YOUR appliances running and your lights on. Don't tell me we can't do the same thing with the fuel rods stored at our plants. This stuff is worth more money than gold, pound for pound! This is madness people!

Clean? Are you kidding me???? Nuclear energy is cleaner than any other source we have except maybe hydro-electric. We don't need to build roads and lay concrete all over our landscape to put up windmills which only give us power when the wind blows. We don't have to wait decades before solar, battery technology and geothermal actually make sense on a grand scale. Nuclear power SAVES the environment by NOT spewing out CO2 and other massive pollutants which coal fired plants emit. Bear in mind that Germany is trying to close down their nuclear plants, but since wind and solar don't give them what they need they still burn dirty coal and buy nuclear power from, you guessed it, FRANCE! Germany is one of the worst polluters in W. Europe, and France is the CLEANEST with 80%+ of their electricity from nuclear plants.

The cruel hoax which has been played on us all, is that no matter what people say, we are stuck building more and more coal burning plants to keep up. We even burn Nat. Gas to make electricity which is stupid too. Natural Gas must be used in our vehicles where it burns much cleaner and is a fine fuel for that purpose. Look at the major cities which use it in their bus fleets (Los Angeles, etc.). It works for heavy lifting, whereas ethanol does not. Besides, what sense does it make to burn food or cellulose (basically wood products) for fuel?

Sustainable? Are you kidding me??? If we need to, and we don't, we can get uranium from the earths crust and the ocean. It's all over planet. We can even use the abundant Thorium if we need to. But we DON'T. There are just over 100 uranium miners left in this entire country because of the fear mongerers who told us nuclear is unsafe and evil. So, we stopped mining it. Subterranean uranium is found in large amounts in the United States, in Canada, Australia and Russia. If we reprocess it instead of wasting it by shoving it underground at places like Yucca Mountain it becomes nearly endless in supply for our needs before we move on to more advanced sources. The claim that we will ever run out of nuclear fuel before we develop other sources of energy are a huge lie.

Here's the problem people like you must face. This is not about what we "want" as you mischaracterized it. This is about what we need and must do. This it about protecting our environment from dirty coal plant production (one built every 30 days in China and more in the U.S.). This is a travesty that has gone on long enough. We have had enough of listening to your fantasies of wind and solar which never amount to anything. You can keep dreaming about burning trash, tidal turbines and geothermal. I have nothing against any of it. Heck we can even keep subsidizing the research for all of it! But right now we need answers that work. Nuclear power is one of those answers we cannot live without, period.

Stop spreading lies. If France can do this using our own reprocessing technology for decades without a single accident or problems, then we can too!