How many nuclear power plants would we need to get us to 100%

[madokie]

13. Accidents happen

could you imagine if we were to increase the chance of an accident by building more nuke plants. I don't think its a smart way to go, sorry.

Every machine I've ever been around has a chance of screwing up at some point in its lifetime. Machines like at the foundry I worked at for 12 years if a machine went down it pretty much was a hit on the bottom line and that was all but with Nuclear power plants the potential for serious damage is ever present. Look at Chernobyl or Fukushima for an example. We really dodged one with TMI whether the pronuclear crowd wants to admit that or not.

At this point I believe that Thorium has about as many unanswered questions as it has answers so I'm not yet sold on that as viable.

Pripyat Russia. I'm not sure we want to take too many chances of something like that happening around here. I know I sure didn't back in the '70s when we were fighting to stop a nuclear power plant from being built a few miles up wind of where I'm at right now.