A 'New Day for Energy in America'?

This is ambitious....but doing it without cheap off shore labor is what's really going to be impressive.

We have nuclear weapons stored in almost every state, attended by 19-year olds, with no education and hopefully average discipline. Nuclear power plants are run by trained professionals, and as we can see from the example of France, that gets 60 % of their power from nuclear, safe operation is possible. Only fools can oppose the most efficient, cheapest, cleanest way to generate power.

As long as they can find a way to dispose of the radioactive waste and I don't find a 3 eyed fish on my plate in a restaurant.

Only a fool would NOT endorse Wind Power or other alternatives. Wind Farms reduce our liabilities compared with Coal and Nukes. Why can't the Nuke and Coal supports adopt a new attitude towards alternatives? Clean energy, safe energy, is the way.

Thanks, Now we have a new terrorist target, Nice work.

There are better sources of energy. This is just another grandstanding effort to show "we are trying to make a difference". When will the truth begin to be seen?
Send the waste into outer space..toward the Sun..it has plenty of radiation to spare...heck we may even prolong it's life.

It's about time we continue with nuclear power. Fossil fuels have been fouling the air we breath and the water we drink for far to long. Global Warming is a major issue and nuclear power is the answer. With technology growing in leaps and bounds it's only a matter of time before science finds a use for nuclear waste. Economy wise an investment in nuclear power will be a benefit for retirement options . Social Security will be safe since individual retirement plans will bring in huge amounts of profit in the stock exchange

Bravo!

There are ways to recycle Nuclear waste as well once the American public gets over nukephobia.

I also support wind but let's be realistic - We would have to convert an enormous amount of our wilderness to wind farms. The foundations alone are enough to scare any serious environmentalist.

Here, here! Now let's see if the the Bushies have balls enough to push the enviro-fascists aside and approve the app.....THEN let's see if the Circuit Courts and the Supremes have the guts to decline to hear the multiple lawsuits this will generate

I live near a nuke plant and feel quite comfortable. We need balance in America, I would welcome wind, solar, coal, oil and nuclear all in balance. I am making great money in the Energy Fund of my retirement money. That nuke plant I live near, no problem with terrorists.. those guards practice with M16's and great barricades.. and as stupid as the terrorists are they would probably aim for the cooling towers.

Dump the waste in Crawford!

It is unfortunate that so few recognize the limitations of the sources of energy to replace fossil fuel. Biofuels and wind or solar energy are not sufficient to power the world. Nuclear energy is limited by the danger of proliferation of used fuel rods with no disposal solution and the finite supply of pitchblend for radium.

It's O.K. for us to build them, but Iran better not !!

France currently has 59 reactors on line producing 75% of their electricity.

Also, the recycle their waste bringing it down to about 3%.

The French people are overwhelmingly in favor of it. We are so backwards here in the States, clinging to acient myths about the dangers of radioactivity simply because we cannot see it.

Yes there is a risk - just as there is getting on an airplane or crossing the street.

Common sense dicttes that there is far greater danger clinging to oil wars or fabricated fairy tales about solar energy.

I think the terrorist threat is scare tactics propagated by the nukaphobics.

It makes far more sense that oil independence will reduce the risk much more than guarded plutonium will increase the risk because we will no longer need the Middle East and can mind our own business. If we’re not there they will have no reason to terrorize us (unless we have been lied to by the left and oil has nothing to do with it)

No blood for oil takes on new meaning when you don’t need the oil.

It's about time - like it or not, Nuclear Power is the only real solution to global warming and fossil fuel dependency.

It's about time. We had TXU try and pull a fast one with GOV Perry's support in the last state congress to push for 14 new coal burning power plants. A lot of us here in Texas said no due to the obvious emissions that that would produce. Nuclear Power is the way to go until you can figure out how to use Hydrogen locally.

To all of you that are against nuke power, what are the alternatives? There's no tech available now that generates the amount of electricity as cleanly as nukes do. Natural gas? gives off co2, coal ditto. Solar - you'd need to cover the area of Mass. to get the same amount of power, Wind - same story. It's time we realize there's a penalty to pay for our lifestyles. Energy doesn't come easy and nuke power is the cleanest form of generating power without producing co2. Put a plan together (yucca mtn) to handle the waste and lets get off the fossil fuel addiction.

America likely won't be storing used nuclear waste for very long - they have treaties under negotiation whereby the spent fuel will be returned to those countries that mined it. Yucca Mtn is not required.

Next problem?

Nuclear power is not cheap-it is one of the most highly subsidized industries, which means more tax payer $$.

And nuclear power is certainly not clean, nuclear plants are running out of space to store the tons of spent fuel. The research involved in finding a permanent storage facility for spent fuel is in the billions-more tax payer dollars. Many facilities have run out of space in the meantime and are burying the waste, which ends up in water and soil, causing numerous cases of cancer in the surrounding communities.

These are the problems if no accidents occur at the plant. And if an accident does happen, whether because of terrorism, equipment failure/malfunction, or human error, the consequences are horrifying. Look at Chernobyl.