Sacrificing the desert to save the Earth

[hunter]

25. Not to mention the coal mines...

The crazy thing is we've already dug enough uranium and thorium out of the ground to power the USA for a long, long time.

The "waste" from our obsolete nuclear power plants is still 95% fuel. We've got a bunch of useless bombs in storage. We've got huge piles of mining wastes that contain thorium. We've got acres and acres of poisonous depleted uranium stored in corroding containers, more than we could ever hope to shoot at our enemies.



But the odds are very good we'll simply export these nuclear fuels to the nations that build reactors to use it. Meanwhile, we'll burn coal, frack natural gas, and make gasoline from tar sands at a much greater environmental cost.