Some people are saying ‘We need nuclear because we can’t burn coal or oil.’

That’s like smoking cigars or a pipe or chewing tobacco because you don’t want to smoke cigarettes, because cigarettes cause cancer. We all know cigarettes that cause cancer, and smokers “should” quit or cut down. But pipes, cigars, and chewing tobacco are still tobacco. “Quitting cigarettes and smoking cigars is like going from crack cocaine to powdered cocaine or heroin. Which is a better way to die? Lung cancer from smoking cigarettes or lung cancer from smoking cigars?

Der Speigel, May, 1986.

Der Speigel published Looking Back at Chernobyl, beginning April 19, 2006.

One fact jumps out – the accident at Three Mile Island (Wikipedia) which the NRC

describes as “serious,” is said to have released 15 curies of radioactive material. The explosion at Chernobyl disbursed “roughly 80 million curies of iodine 131 and 6 million curies of caesium 137, a “large part” of which was released into the atmosphere.”

Joni Mitchell once sang “Give me spots on my apples, but leave me the birds and the bees, please.”

You can see her recorded live on You Tube

Solar, wind, geothermal, hydro, oceanic hydro – these are available, and much more cost effective. They are the technologies of the future, available today.