Reasons why Nuclear energy is BAD for America
- 1. It's NOT clean or good for the environment. The mining and refining process for nuclear fuel is extremely dirty and required HUGE amounts of fossil which negates the claim that it has no CO2 emissions. The reactors and buildings themselves are also built with tons of fossil fuel consuming equipment.http://http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=3039
- 2. There's no way to properly dispose of the nuclear waste. Nuclear waste never goes away. We cannot build adequate storehouses or waste sites that will keep the waste from getting into our air and water systems. Plus it is extremely costly to build these worthless sites and even more costly to safely deliver and handle the toxic waste. http://http://www.grist.org/news/maindish/2006/08/08/stang/
- Nuclear power plants are extremely vulnerable to terrorist attacks and natural disasters.
- Current nuclear power plants are rapidly becoming outdated and prone to malfunctions
- Nuclear power plants have dozens of "close calls" every yearhttp://www.ohiocitizen.org/campaigns/electric/nucfront.html
- Nuclear power is extremely expensive and is nearly completely tax funded ans subsidized because no investors will invest in it because it is too much of a risk. Tax payer money also insures plants in case there were ever to be an accident. http://http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0509-22.htm
- If there ever were an accident, thousands of people would die, many more thousands would become deathly ill and acres and acres of land would become inhabitable and worthless for farming.
- The world is running low on nuclear fuel, and this has caused prices to skyrockt for the elements needed to create it.
- Nuclear waste is vulnerable to theft and could be used for terrorist weapons
- Nuclear power is the main contributor in the world today for nuclear proliferation. Every rouge nation (except Isreal) obtained its atomic weapons from waste that was produced from their own nuclear power plants. http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/11/26/5448/
