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In reply to the discussion: Nuclear Power Plans for More Disasters [View all]RobertEarl
(13,685 posts)You asked:
do you have ANY IDEA how incredibly STUPID it sounds to say "well we can develop technology we don't have to deal with the problem!"?
That is exactly what we are doing with nukes. We have developed nuke tech and are not dealing with the problems nuke radiation presents.
CO2 is natural. Nuke waste is not. We can breathe non-toxic CO2, and be fine. We can not breathe nuke waste and be fine.
One aspect of the CO2 problem is that we have cut down our forests and we continue to drive wasteful, polluting automobiles. We tear at the earth changing the ecology. We add heat to the atmosphere constantly. We fly airplanes in the sky dumping huge amounts of CO2 in place where there is nothing to absorb it. I know about CO2. I also, unlike you, know about nukes and the waste.
Nuke waste is a far larger problem. And it adds to the CO2 problem. It is not, as you suggest, an answer to the GW problem at all.