Got to admit it sounds scary to me. Personally, I think WE should use more nuclear power and continue to advance the technology, but there's no telling where these people will take it. Seems kind of like letting a schizophrenic drive your kids school bus. Let's keep our fingers crossed, eh?
The waste has indeed been a problem, but, look at the advances we've made since the sixties. Back then the waste was enormous. By the nineties 90% of the used material was recyclable. If this follows the usual pattern of technological advancement, the more we use it and learn about it, the better this will get. Also, the early materials had long half-lifes, like 200,000 years long. Newer materials have half-lifes of less than a century, and that's with us only half-heartedly trying. We've got to do something to break our addiction to the finite oil resources. Why not try on all fronts? How about multiple tiny reactors like that one in Alaska? I forget where, but some township far from everything has one, and it can power FAR more than they are capable of using. Let's move forward.
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