I work a nuclear power plant, but alot of people hear the word “nuclear” and they get all stupid due to all the propaganda from Greenpeace, Sierra Club and other money making fear-mongering groups. The biggest threat in industry today is not a nuclear generating plant, but any of the millions of miles of railroads that haul thousands of tons of deadly chemicals into and round cities.

The people who fear nuclear power in the US, Japan or Europe do not have a clue about it. Our plants are safer, cleaner and greener than all other viable methods including coal, gas, oil and even wind & solar.

Did you know the owners of nuclear reactors have to pay the government 1 million dollars ayear per reactor, above and beyond any standard taxes and fees, just to support the Yucca Mountain storage plan, even if Yucca Mountain does get used? Say “cow cash”.

Also, there are new ideas to use the spent fuel instead of Yucca Mountain. Ideas like repocessing to reuse in a different power plant and thermal battaries. Nuclear reactors are really quite small and the new ones in Europe are smaller than the ones we use in the US, yet produce twice the amount of electricty.