They myth that is man made global warming.

[HappySqurriel]

megaman79 said:

HappySqurriel said:

The truth about Nuclear power is that it can be some of the safest and cleanest power sources in the world but propaganda based on 1950s/1960s American/Russian styled nuclear power plants ... In part because Canadians didn't have the heavy industry, did not have the enrichment facilities, and were not looking for military applications of nuclear power, the Canadian designed Candu reactor is a much larger design which can use a much lower grade of fuel and is (over all) far safer than many other reactor designs.

The real problem with Nuclear power is the time it takes to construct the facilities, and the resistance there is to any facilities being constructed ... If it takes 15 to 25 years to build a nuclear plant and you need 1 plant per 100,000 people to replace our dependance on fossil fuels how many nuclear plants should be under construction today to no longer need fossil fuels by 2030?

What? Half a million years isn't a problem?

We got plenty of room in Australia, and you better believe its prime real estate (deserts), but screw dealing with a problem for that amount of time. A little bit of cash from the french, chinese or american governments simply won't cover 500,000 years while waiting for rods/equiptment to "cool" down.

You really need to read less propaganda and learn more about the science ...

The danger posed by nuclear waste essentially comes from enriching the material to a very high level (producing very radioactive materials) which then need to be disposed of. If you're using a very low grade material there is very little danger from the waste material produced. If you took the waste from a Candu reactor which was running on natural uranium, and mixed the waste material at 1 part per 100 parts of concrete you could store this safely (pretty much) anywhere as long as people didn't decide to build houses out of it.