Reply #10: Our fossil fuel plants have already created a "toxic wasteland."

[hunter]

And it is getting worse.

The volume and toxicity of the waste produced by coal power plants far exceeds that produced in nuclear power plants.

a toxic coal waste accident.

The carbon dioxide produced by fossil fuel power plants of any kind is far more destructive to the environment than any nuclear power plant "waste."

Many solar power schemes are also more toxic than nuclear power...

I'm a radical environmentalist. If I were emperor I'd ban private automobiles, coal mining, factory farms, and many other environmentally damaging human activities. I also think nuclear power plants are a viable way of reducing our dependence on fossil fuels.

In the short term, for the next few hundred years, replacing coal power plants with nuclear power plants is a good idea even if it requires large government subsidies.

Until we humans are able to significantly reduce our population voluntarily we will require large scale relatively clean power sources. "Natural" or "alternative" energy sources don't have the muscle to support the civilization we have created. If this civilization collapses, either from lack of energy, or from toxic fossil fuel waste and carbon dioxide emissions, then billions of people will die of starvation, disease, and in very ugly resource wars.