Comments on: Is Nuclear Renewable? Not in South Carolina.

By: John

John — Tue, 05 May 2009 18:00:34 +0000

How can nuclear waste be called “clean”? It’s the dirtiest waste known to man! It causes damage to DNA and leeches into our water and food supply for the next 30,000 years regardless of how we try to contain it. South Carolina will cease to exist if these money hungry, pocket lining out of control capitolist bastards don’t realize that people are already starting to be affected by their “clean” nuclear waste. For the last 40 years no one in my family had cancer. Now within the last 5 years my grandmother, maternal cousin, paternal cousin, and close high school friends have all developed cancer. Many more unmentioned have also. South Carolina already has more nuclear power plants per capita than any other place in the world. Now the money mongers have approval to build 12 more plants in the next 20 years. Duh, fusion will be available soon and SC will be stuck with fission and will become an uninhabitable wasteland. I’m a sailor. I’ve sailed in SC for 21 years. There is wind here! But the fools won’t even dream of using real “clean” technology. I’m leaving SC for good; you greedy assholes can have your waste dump!

By: Abe

Abe — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 01:23:30 +0000

There’s enough uranium in the Earth to power civilization for billions of years, and it’s constantly brought to the surface and dissolved in seawater by cycles of erosion and uplift. There’s absolutely no shortage of fuel; it will last longer than the sun itself.

The only problem is waste, and how harmful is that? Seriously, compare the environmental impact of nuclear waste with the alternatives: coal power plant pollution and global warming. Which is worse?

By: Pluto Boy

Pluto Boy — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 16:39:23 +0000

Lurking behind the scenes of this ridiculous “nukes are renewable” debate in South Carolina was the idea of reprocessing spent nuclear fuel and using plutonium breeder reactors. Several mal-informed and brain washed (by Duke Energy?) representatives spoke up in favor of reprocessing every chance they got. Reprocessing dissolves spent reactor uclear fuel in acid, creating a sea of waste, and removes weapons-usable plutonium for stockpiling. The industry can only exist if propped up by big government. In the S.C, Bush and his Department of Energy is pursuing it through a program called the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP) and DOE has requested $302 million for this in Fiscal Year 2009. The DOE’s Savannah River Site in S.C. is a target for this insane GNEP program. While some call it recycling, that only applies in that pursuit of this program recycles money out of your pocket and right into that of the plutonium industry and political allies.