Reply #21: Germany is increasing its non-nuclear capacity.

[JDPriestly]

Nuclear energy is not the only answer.

And nuclear energy has a greater potential for blighting our environment than oil or even coal. I think of a time hundreds of years from now and a population less prosperous than ours trying to deal with the mysteries of uninhabitable, poisoned landscapes -- devastated by nuclear reactors left to emit radiation after some war, famine or other catastrophe causes a significant decline in the standard of living of the remaining humans that we cannot foresee.

The licensing and construction of nuclear reactors presumes that people will remain as sophisticated, well organized and peaceful as we are today. (Ha!!!) But the likeliest scenario is that people will fall, at some point, into a Dark Age. Imagine how the barbaric hoards that invaded the Roman Empire would have dealt with nuclear reactors and areas of tremendous nuclear contamination on their routes had such areas existed. I do not want to bequeath the hazards of nuclear reactors to my unborn descendants.