Wrong. You are very ignorant of the safety systems in nuclear power plant. The facts are nuclear power is clean and safe. How many people die in coal mines per year? What about natural gas explosions in homes and industrial locations? Thousands around the world. How died at Fukushima due to radioactive material exposure? None. I happen to work in a DOE nuclear lab; we are very capable as citizens of the world to use nuclear power for power generation, let alone other high temperature process heat applications. We just need to be the feel good and damn commie enviro bastards out of the way.

There are other nuclear power generation alternatives as well. Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors and High Temperature Gas Reactors are very good technologies and work. We as citizens of the world need to allow these new reactor into our communities. There is the promises and hope of Small Modular Reactors was well.

Get the damn liberals out of the way and we can make energy work for us. The damn Germans are being so PC stupid they don't see the failures of the renewable technologies of solar and wind power. Without subsidies, renewable energy technologies are too expensive.

Cheers and enjoy the radiation around you. Nothing like a little alpha particles enlightening your world.

TMI was a success. Most people do not realize that there are still three of the four reactors on TMI still in operation. TMI was successful because it proved the technology to keep the core from going critical. The amount of exposure to radiation during the TMI incident is less than half of the amount of radiation one gets during an standard dental x-ray. One working through Grand Central Station gets more exposure to radiation (from radon in the granite) than those exposed during the TMI incident. I know this because I work with four or five people who did the post accident studies and worked with the programs to mitigate the hazard during post incident operations.

Chernobyl was an accident waiting to happen. The poor reactor design, the poor safety design, and the stupid tests being performed caused the accident. To read more : http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/chernobyl/inf07.html. There are still operations happening near Chernobyl.

Anyway, if we want to handle the energy needs of the demands forth coming, nuclear is an answer. Wind power is not the answer. It only generates power, at the best estimates, 25% of the time. To get the windmills manufacture there are a lot of raw material necessary, with require large amounts of mining. Recycle materials are not always available to produce the steels necessary to provide the structure to support the blades. The birds flying into the blade is an urban and rural legend.

Solar works only during the day, and require toxic batteries to store the energy. Plus, on the environment, the materials to produce solar panels are very earth unfriendly--heavy mining for the raw materials. Supply of silica and gallium is in short supply. China and India are consuming large quantities of copper, gold, and other metals because of the development activities under way.

Bio fuels is stupid! Let burn all our food and starve to death, then no will be around to worry about how to get around because everyone will be dead. Cellulose bio fuels may work, but the US does not have the kind of conditions to allow the growth of those kind of crops. Brazil does a great job at it because they are not burning food, but special crops for bio fuel.

I personally believe thorium based reactors are best. There is an alternative as well--small distributed reactors. Hyperion and NuScale both have reactors perfect to a distributed energy solution. http://www.hyperionpowergeneration.com/ and http://www.nuscalepower.com/

Go nuclear. Its clear, it renewable, and it proven. It is safe.

ITS stands for Intelligent Transportation Systems, not Intelligent Transport Systems. There is a whole world of ITS that very few people know about. To learn more maybe the ./ers should visit http://www.itsa.org/, or better yet visit a company that does ITS for a living, http://www.iteris.com/. There is even a national architecture standard available for all to use when planning and developing an ITS project. Visit http://itsarch.iteris.com/itsarch/ to get more information.

Enjoy. The roads of the future are ITS based products and deployments. Infact, has anyone seen those little camera in the intersections? That is ITS. Has anyone seen those neat like weather stations along the roadside? That is ITS. Has anyone used a toll road automated pass system? That is ITS. Has anyone seen a commercial vehicle drive past an open port-of-entry while others have to stop? That is ITS.

The list goes on and on and on. Keep ./ing.
Mormonboy