Reply #12: The old disasters are fine.

[jtuck004]

Like dumping the output of coal plants on this country every day, very likely responsible for at least shortening, if not ending, 10,000 lives every year(that's the conservative estimate I heard). Coal needs to end.

Or auto's, which take out about 40,000 people a year.

Nuclear is far safer than that when we aren't using it as weapons. If we were to get into actually installing the billions of installations of solar\wind we would need to even generate a part of the total package we would probably lose as many people falling from towers and roofs as we do now from well-designed nuclear installations. I'm not against wind and solar, I think it should be part of the mix, as well as work on energy efficiency for homes and agriculture.

If solar is so viable why is are the undamaged PV factories in Japan down because of no electricy? If the stuff is so great they should be able to generate their own - they can't even do it for themselves, much less all the other demand.

People are free to take issue with whatever, but IMHO its nothing more than a religious\superstitious belief in solar\wind\etc that keeps people thinking they can directly replace working technologies. It's easier to believe in ghosts than to prove it, and just because they can generate power in some limited areas, even for parts of whole cities, doesn't mean it is a viable replacement for nuclear.