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Old 03-11-2009, 04:22 PM   #43 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by jamesqf View Post
After you finish checking the arithmetic on the 9 year energy payback fallacy, you could try looking into this one. The basic problem is the popular myth - created by comic books and '50s monster movies, and adopted by the watermelons* for their own purposes - that radioactive material is some sort of infinitely deadly stuff, like kryptonite. This bears about as much relationship to reality as does Superman or Godzilla.

*Watermelons: green on the outside, red on the inside.
Nuclear waste is nasty, dangerous stuff. Until we can get the political will to implement breeder reactors to reprocess, reuse and reduce the existing waste, we shouldn't be building any more conventional nuke plants.
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