Kytiara on 23 May 2008
@largedarryl
And exactly how many nuclear power plants do you think it would take to remove the need for coal and oil power plants? 1000? 10000?
Where's the money going to come from to pay for those plants? I'm not trying to say that an alternative isn't required, but nuclear power plants aren't likely to be the answer this late in the game. Maybe if they'd been producing nuclear plants for the last 30 years but I don't see how they could produce enough plants in NA to fulfill all the energy needs soon enough to make an appreciable difference.
As for the cleanliness, I have to admit I don't have specific knowledge of the waste by-products, but I know enough about how nuclear power plants work to assume that it can't be trivial.
