Reply #27: The waste shouldn't scare you.

[TheWraith]

For starters, nature has been storing nuclear waste for thousands of years without our help. Look up the Oklo natural reactors. Second, the coal plants that we need to replace are currently dumping 18 tons per year of uranium and thorium straight into the environment--and that's PER PLANT. Now compare that to 30 tons of spent fuel rods out of a nuclear plant, 97% of which can be recycled back into usable fuel, and all of which is safely sequestered away from the environment.

We need to replace coal, and we need to do it now. We can't afford to wait another 30 years, like we did after the first time the fossil fuel industry lead a crusade against nuclear.