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A new report from a University of Vermont researcher says the cost of the safety measures needed for nuclear energy will eventually make the power source economically unviable

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Cooper says the very different natures of nuclear disaster versus coal pollution rightly makes people worried.

"Sometimes the industry says 'If people understood it better, they wouldn't be as concerned,'" he says. "It's a different kind of disaster, and the industry has to start accepting it is different. There's a very wide impact in the aftermath of a nuclear disaster—you've got large dead zones, large exclusion zones. These problems you create, they strike a chord in human beings that is very deep-seeded and real. It's the nature of the technology."

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Always be skeptical of unnamed experts. The new nuclear plant designs have passive safety features, fewer systems and better designed. Industrial safety analysis is based on statistical probability, your odds on having an event and that event happening concurrent with another event. But people have one the lottery more than once. Yes new safety analysis need to be conducted, but nuclear is a good base to any utilities power mix.

Solar dude, do you know how much water is used to wash solar cells at commercial facilities, hope you don't need to drink

demetri petrenko of FL 10:07AM September 19, 2012

Did not the investigating commission that was appointed by the Japanese Parliament just concluded, That It was very sadly a Profoundly Man-made Disaster that Could and Should have Been Foreseen and at all cost been Prevented.” This commission dose hold the Japan Government, Regulators and its Nuclear Owners and Operators Responsible for the Meltdown that occurred at Fukushima, after a Powerful Earthquake that generated a Large Tsunami that struck the country’s northeast coast in March of the year 2011.

This Plant was built by "GE" or know as "General Electric" A American Company and there are 23 of them in America just like the one they built at Fukushim Japan. At least one in the state of Illinois. Thank GOD Illinois dose not have a lot of Earthquakes. Yet ? and are the 23 power plants that are built just like the Fukushima one Safe of the 100+ Nuclear Power Plants in the United States of America??? Or are they a Disaster looking to come?

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There is enough Energy coming from our SUN in a day to power all our needs on Earth for for a long time.

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Told by most all Scientist that these two men were of the World s most smartest men to ever live on Earth they were Mathematician, Physicist, Engineer, Scientist and Inventors of many things "Archimedes and Albert Einstein".

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Paul Felix Schott of HI 2:31PM July 07, 2012

It is not nuclear power plants (such as cars) which are dangerous, have accidents. However, the accident of March 11, 2011 has the weakness of the unprotected external pipes! If water could continue to come to the reactors, they would not explode. All nuclear power plants in the world are armoured but not the pipes and external electrical supplies! This is what the press refuses to speak.

huemaurice7 of TX 11:19AM April 22, 2012

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