Puts lives in danger, period. What is the safe way to dispose of radioactive toxins? "Recycle" it into energy? There's always an amount that cannot be recycled. What to do with it then, bury it in concrete lined tanks like the last 50+ years? Send it up into the air in the form of radioactive fallout so we can all turn gray and die an early death from cancer? Sounds fun to me!Guess what, they are finally admitting to fallout on both the east and west coasts. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif
The wheel can kill 100's if used improperly and we have laws against that. Nuclear doesn't limit its harm by square miles....it's called "Fallout" for a reason. The wheel might have been around for 1000's of years but the fallout will last just as long. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif
Too bad most people are more concerned with American Idol or the latest internet sensation..... //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif
Actually, the wheel kills far more people every day/week/year than nuclear technology. Again, if humans were to rebel against technology that has potential harmful effects when used improperly, we'd all still be living in caves, without even the use of fire to keep us warm and cook our food.
As for disposing of radioactive 'toxins' as you call it, again if the US would refine its fuel like many other countries do, we'd have less than 1% of the nuclear waste that we currently do. You ask what would we still do with that small amount.... well what do we do with the other 99% we currently 'dispose' of? The only negative to refining the fuel is our own paranoia over being able to properly control the 'weapons grade' fuel we'd create from it. And again, plenty of other countries do not limit themselves with this paranoia, so the weapons grade fuel is out there anyway.
Lastly, the ultimate solution to nuclear waste disposal is space. We currently refuse to consider that option because we are worried what the fallout (figuratively and literally) would be if the rocket exploded before it exited the atmosphere. Fair enough. But technology is on the horizon that will make space elevators possible, creating a safe way to transport the waste to space and dispose of it forever. Until that technology is developed fully, we'd simply bury it, like we do now. But again, if we refined it, we'd have one hell of a lot less fuel to bury until that time than we currently do.
You have a lot of reasons why we should abandon nuclear energy, but Ive yet to see you give one solid alternative. Develop wind and solar power? Sounds great, except that puts us right back in the same boat of waiting for a new technology to be developed, meanwhile we still have the same problems you mention in this thread. And even the environmental extremists are starting to raise hell about wind generators, because they 'kill birds'. There are some new developments in solar tech that look promising, but still do not currently exist in a form that would provide significant amounts of energy to power an entire civilization.
