I've been really surpised by some people's reactions and opinion to Nuclear Power. So do you think its as bad as the people believe or is it ok?

I'm for it as a stopgap measure until we get nuclear fusion. I have no faith in other renewables. It should be new plants though, not extending the life of older designs, because safety is the most important aspect. We should accept a rise in electricity costs to do this.

Nuclear power is as safe as it needs to be, it's just we can't accept continuous production of waste due to the increasing risk. So if we limit it to 20 years then switch off, that should be acceptable.

I am for it. I think its what we need to invest n right if we want to get off of our oil dependency. At the same time I do not think it is the be all end all energy source, we will need to move on from it as soon as we are able too.

Yeah fusion is the ultimate power source. I don't think people realize how amazing it is. Problem is its too expensive at the moment with not enough yield.

Thorium (huge reserves) plants is the way to go as a stopgap while the fusion plants are developed. Renewables aren't efficient and dependable enough to cover all the production, and they need huge subsidies to cover their cost. Rare metal prices hike (neodymium for wind, other costly rare metals for improved coating in solar) make them costlier year by year.

My personal opinion is that it's needed as a source to replace fossil fuels until a more reliable safer fuel can be found that is cost effective (so not in my lifetime probably). Many newer nuclear powerstations, I hear, are far safer then the older style ones like Chernogyl and Fukushima were designed on.

Out of interest, as I'm not familiar with the true workings on Wind power, how is Neodymium used in wind power? and specifically Wind I mean, as I always assumed it was the same turbine technology in any power source just with wind rotating the blades to produce the power for the turbines?

It's a fine source of power that should get some investment. It's sure as hell better than fossil fuel, and it's a lot more feasible at the moment than renewables. No, it's not perfect: it still uses finite resources (though they are present in much larger amounts, especially U-238) and releases dangerous waste. But it's the best we have at the moment.

Germany is making a big mistake by caving in to the hippies that oppose it. How many nuclear disasters have we had since nuclear power's inception? Three. How many coal mines have exploded? How many oil leaks have we had? I know it would be lovely if we could all run on wind and solar power, but they are both horribly impractical and produce very little electricity relative to their cost. It would require an area of solar panels roughly the size of Libya to power Europe. Wind is fickle, and wind power stations are not cheap.

And if anyone is so naive and foolish as to think we're all going to stop driving cars and start cycling everywhere and shut down the factories and live off the land, well, I don't think they should really have any say in the future of humanity.

We already have free energy technologies. But it had been suppressed by the illuminati to keep their control.

Please do elaborate.

Neodymium is used in permanent magnets used in wind turbines, as one of it's alloys is one of the strongest permanent magnets known.