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It's good as long as they keep it far away from areas with high population denities.
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Except they need to be close to areas of high population densities, otherwise too much power is lost in the transmission lines.
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It worries me. Whilst they do claim that it's efficient, I want to know where they plan to put the waste when it gets to the point where they can no longer dump it under the sea. They certainly couldn't put it into unused mines and the likes - it could get into the water supply.
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Except that they haven't been dumping it in to the sea for decades. Mines should be fine when the waste is encased in several inches of steel and then several metres of concrete.
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Launch it into space for all I care. Nuclear energy is, right now, the only 'clean' powersource we have that doesn't require 10.000 windmills or solarpanels on an area as big as Texas to power 250.000 homes. Until the first cold fusion plant opens up, this is what we're stuck with.
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Except, you know, for the rockets that fail on takeoff and then either explode or crash land. Goodbye Cape Canaveral!
But I do agree with the rest of your thesis. Nuclear safety technology has progressed lightyears since Chernobyl. The chance of an accident is now incredibly low. On the other hand, it will definately do wonders to combat global warming, especially in a country like Australia where most of our electricity comes from coal. Unfortunately, our government (in pre-election effort at populism) swore never to allow nuclear power here.