What is wrong with nuclear power?

Question

If nuclear power is a clean, efficient, cheap power source, than why don't we have more nuclear power plants? We are already building a long-term storage facility for nuclear waste, where we can safely store nuclear waste indefinitely. Nuclear plants have a better safety history than coal mines, and oil mines. The worst incident ever was Chernobyll, and that facility was c**p by 1970's standards. So why are people so opposed to nuclear power?

Answer 1

The sites that produce the waste don't want to keep it but to pawn it off onto someone else.  They don't want to keep it, because it is dangerous.  Others don't want it because it is dangerous.  See the problem.

Where the waste products contained at the site -- and the site absorb the related financial costs -- I would have no problem what-so-ever with it.  Well, the CEO of the facility needs to live next door to it, too.

Earth Need Radioactive Waste

Sounds good to me.  Why don't you order up a ton or two and keep it under your pillow.

Did someone just say that radioactive waste is as safe as the Hindenburg.  This is sounding better all the time.

If you render down the earth's population, the goo would fit in a cube one mile on a side.  The earth's annual use of oil is about twice that.

Answer 2

Renewable resources like water and wind are better.

Answer 3

Nuclear is extremely expensive compared to coal- almost up there with solar if all the costs are added in.   But the good old tax payer gets to foot the bill so the power rates stay low.   It costs over a $1,000,000,000 to build a nuke plant.   Most of that cost is written off in taxes.   There is no possible way the company could ever pay the insurance premium if they needed coverage for millions of people and houses downwind from them; the tax payer gets to foot that bill if/when an accident happens.   The long term facility has already been built, at a huge cost over run that taxpayers have to pay, but the state is in lawsuits to keep anything from ever going into the facility.   The mining, processing and transportation of uranium emits almost as much CO2 as coal power plants.   Nuke plants are built by the lowest bidder.

Answer 4

Because the coal industry in the U.S is like the oil industry in the middle east. If you start building nuclear plants, you are taking money away from the coal companies. The have a lot of power and a lot of money to lobby their interest to politicians. Just 'follow the money.'  

Answer 5

Most people fear the waste, We now have the ability to recycle old waste and get more energy out of it, but still you have the storage of spent fuel and terrorist attacks, however France is using 80% nuke power and even have plants right next to schools. It's like Hydrogen cars, we still have people fearing hydrogen cars because of the people that died on the Hindenburg, Lighter than air passenger balloons. If we go to cars that run on electricity we will have to use more coal fired plants or nuclear power to generate power, but the lefties have finally come out and said what they really want, Ride a bike no fuel burning cars because it burns they oxygen out of the air and it would be better if we got rid of 6 billion people on the planet they think the planet can't support it. But if you took all the people on the earth they could fit in one county in Florida. If you watched the Democrat presidential speech you would have seen the cheering that obma got for getting rid of coal and drilling in the U.S. by ten years. But Guess What They want mass transit just like in Germany so it is not a matter of can we use it it's a matter of who is in control. And what they want to do and that is control where people go and how they can go, and freedom of movement.

     California had a Nuke plant in the 70's allowed the power company to build it but not start it up, made them kep it up as if it was in operation even thought there was no fuel rods. then passed laws saying how much the utilites could charge for power so when California went over their capacity they bought power from Arizona  but Arizona  had no law saying how much they could charge so california had rolling blackouts because the power company could not pay the Arizona power plant that did not have limits on how much they could charge per kilo watt, So then they made the California power company tear down the plant because of activist against the plant and the company went bankrupt and california had to pay the bill, and since Arizona  needed the power themselves they sold it to the highest bidder which was their own state. That is why California is dying, to many laws it's the way the rest of our country is going to go. and the Chernobyll accident was in Russia and there people are cheep and they didn't have concreat barriers like we have in the US. And we do have nuke power thats safe, Like our submarines that are powered with nuke technolgy will run 20 years and have had no problems or our destroyers that will run for a year before they have to come into shore and thats just for food and medical supplies. SO the answer is quite evident if yo think about it.