Many are promoting nuclear power as one of the solutions to global warming or energy independence or both. As with many issues, proponents look on the up side but not the down side.
This thought was triggered by "Nuclear power is still loaded with problems", Ken Bradley and Monique Sullivan, Star Tribune, 2009-03-05
Interestingly, nuclear power plants won't be built without government subsidies, further increasing future debt.
I scribbled in the margin of the paper, "If it is bad to leave a huge government debt to future generations, why is it OK to leave the problem of nuclear waste to more distant future generations."
For more of my thoughts on this, see "http://www.cpinternet.com/~mdmagree/nuclear_option_2008-06-19.html ", Reader Weekly, 2008-06-19
