Reply #77: So we should rely on another energy source that produces more poison that we can't neutralize?

[jeff47]

Coal plants aren't environmentally wonderful. Heck, the smoke from them is significantly radioactive. And we have no realistic way to capture the CO2 which is causing that little global warming problem.

Yes, nuclear waste is a problem. But there's a lot less of it than coal plant waste.

(Wind & Solar would be lovely, but our grid can't currently handle using only wind and solar.)

I want the future children and other living things to be able to live without that threat.

I'd like them to have a planet with a functioning ecosystem, adequate fresh water and without literal mountains of coal ash. A comparatively small quantity of radioactive waste is less problematic for the future.