The biggest issue with nuclear power isn't a risk of a meltdown, or even a risk from storage of nuclear waste, but the security risk of creating and refining lots and lots of radioactive material that, if stolen, could be used to create dirty bombs.
That risk exists in some form at every stage of development and use of nuclear power. A nuclear power plant itself is the raw material for a dirty bomb. L --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Susan" <wayback71@...> wrote: > > I just saw Pandora's Promise, by Robert Stone, an environmentalist who has in > the past been active in anti-nuclear energy protests. He got convinced > otherwise and has made this docu. It features info and also interviews with > several environmentalists who have educated themselves and changed their > minds about nuclear energy. Stuart Brand (Whole Earth catalogue) is one and > so is Mark Lynas, who wrote the book Six Degrees in 2007. I have mentioned > that book here several times - terrific and accessible read about climate > change. Lynas was anti nuclear for years - and now changed his mind. A > worthwhile movie to see - and while I am not at all an expert on nuclear > power, it made a really good case for the positives. It also seems that > there is a type of nuclear power (IFR) that produces waste that is recyclable > by the nuclear plant itself. The safeguards on these are also incredible. >
