Re:Nuclear Plants (Score 1)

Neither is it harmless if handled without care. The point is that it is far less harmless and far more efficient than the alternatives.

It has the potential to be less harmful and more efficient than fossil fuels. It also has the potential to be much, much more harmful and much, much less efficient, if handled without the proper care. Call it paranoia if you like, but I just can't summon sufficient faith to make me comfortable with the idea of putting a private company (not that the government is necessarily any better {g}) in charge of something as potentially deadly as a nuclear reactor.

My point is that Nuclear Power, while not the perfect solution, is better than the alternatives (unless you get lots of eating money from people by running around shouting that it's unsafe).

No, I get my money in the traditional American fashion: by playing gofer to a greedy, soulless mega-conglomerate. But hey, I'm not bitter or anything...{g}

If I have anything approaching a hidden agenda, it is to keep people from thinking that fission power is where we want to be tomorrow. That's the kind of thinking that will keep us out of superior technologies (hot and cold fusion, the Patterson power cell, etc.) for another fifty years.