Reply #34: Hanford was always a disaster area.

[TheWraith]

There was a time when they simply vented their surplus radioactive material, mostly iodine, directly into the air. Nearly three quarters of a million curies, before they finally installed filters. That place was designed and built back in the 40s, before a modern understanding of radiation really came about.

Anyway, show me a tidal generator or solar installation that can produce 2,000 megawatts continuously, every day. It's not like I relish the thought of fission plants in every city, but compared to the very large and growing danger of fossil fuels, and the knowledge that major commercial-level Bussard/Polywell reactors are probably 30 years out, it seems a simple equation to me.