Environmentalists Rethink Stance on Nuclear Power

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Debate continues on the advantages of nuclear energy

<a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6172217&ft=1&f=1025&sc=emaf"> </a>Is it me or is there more talk about nuclear energy use lately?  As California just signed a bill mandating caps on greenhouse gas emissions, even some <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6172217&ft=1&f=1025&sc=emaf">environmentalists are throwing the nuke word</a> around as a way to combat the global warming crisis.  <a title="About Patrick Moore" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Moore_(environmentalist)" target="_blank">Patrick Moore</a>, co-founder of Greenpeace, said that wind and solar power aren’t enough to meet the U.S.’s energy needs and that environmentalists must be realistic.     On one hand, I agree that many “environmentalists” often take issues to extremes, but I have to side with them when it comes to nuclear power.  If <a title="Nuclear Safety" href="http://www.treehugger.com/files/2006/10/nuclear_safety.php" target="_blank">inadequate safety measures</a> aren’t enough to quell the idea of adding more nuclear power plants to our landscape, then factor in <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15131749/">waste disposal issues</a> and enormous costs for building additional plants that will eventually be the tax payers’ problem.  Well, we’ll always have higher taxes, but I’d rather be taxed for funding alternative energy initiatives than on a source notorious for safety, health, and environmental violations.by Erin Swanson <a href="mailto:ESwanson@enviance.com">ESwanson@enviance.com</a>  9 application/xml false nuclear energy Environmentalists Rethink Stance on Nuclear Power NPR article on nuclear power http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6172217&ft=1&f=1025&sc=emaf Background on Patrick Moore, Co-Founder of Greenpeace Wikipedia description on Patrick Moore http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Moore_(environmentalist) Nuclear Safety Project Union of Concerned Scientists article on Nuclear Safety http://www.treehugger.com/files/2006/10/nuclear_safety.php U.S. told to pay utilities for nuclear waste delay $143 million awarded because Yucca repository still hasn't opened http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15131749/ Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.16) Gecko/20080702 Firefox/2.0.0.16 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 jwuebben 74.202.198.130 false true false false true 205814 false false true false false false true 107524 blog blogsite/Enviance/web