Quote Originally Posted by JaneV2.0 View Post
The notorious Hanford nuclear installation has been leaking radioactive water for years; it may have reached the Columbia River by now. And we live in an active fault zone, so Fukushima lives large. I would consider nuclear power a last resort--at least around here.

Radiation exposure to the general populations that live around nuclear power plants are significantly lower than naturally occurring radiation and especially lower than radiation from mining and therapeutic uses. And if you consider all health risks, fossil fuel burning and industrialization are much greater hazards than nuclear radiation ever has been.

For those living in areas that present unacceptable risks due to geography, or geology....either new technologies to protect facilities or reliance on renewable alternate energy would be applied.

The same people who have consistently been against the use of nuclear energy for safety reasons need to take a closer look at the threat of climate change realizing that nuclear power is a tool that can be applied to the problem with reasonable assurance of success. This is something that cannot be said of any other approach mentioned to date.