Reply #65: yes, instead lets keep burning fossil fuels because only, what...

[lakeguy]

hundreds of thousands of people die each year from the pollution. add to the that the continuing addition of dangerous CO2 to the atmosphere. how many deaths is/will global warming cause?

how many will die from this 'leak'. you nuke o phobes will continue to justify killing people by burning fossil fuels because of the threat of 'what might happen' with a nuclear accident or the future 'danger'of waste that can be reprocessed down to tiny amounts. no mention of the wast danger with fossil fuel burning though (CO2, mercury, etc.).

there is no way to power the planet without nuclear (even with super duper mega fast ramp up of alternatives) in the near term (next 50 years or so) so unless you want to continue justifying 25% of all worldwide deaths caused directly by fossil fuel burning (add in some more for GW), maybe you should think about nuclear. how many people has nuclear energy killed since its inception? compared to how many have died due to fossil fuel burning during that same time frame?

i used to be anti nuke as well but we will need help to get to the next century unless you want to deplete the planet of both oil and coal.