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Nuclear Power's Second Coming Will Lead to a Uranium Boom

7-11-08: Leak closes French nuclear plant

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Nuclear Power's Second Coming Will Lead to a Uranium Boom

Firs of all, I'm not saying I'm anit-nuke, but as someone who had a friend who was an inspector at at a nuclear power plant, let's just say things go bad a lot more often then is made public. All the motivation is to hide minor accidents, near catastrophes, etc.. The main problem, according to my friend, was using substandard replacement parts due to greed (kickbacks, etc.), and this is why problems often occurred, and where I fear might continue to occur in the future (even the best designed plants won't function right if someone decides to save a few bucks and use a few substandard parts).

For the time being, plants in the U.S. are currently storing their spent rods in cooling pools within the nuclear facilities. These pools were never designed to store so many rods, meaning the pools need to be actively cooled with fervor in order to prevent a meltdown. This is just the cooling pools, not the reactor themselves! Something goes wrong just with the active cooling, and we have a problem (even after the plants no longer produce electricity). Can anyone really say if storing the radioactive waste in mines is going to harm all living things in the future? Are the risks worth taking? I just want people to be aware that nuclear has more risks than people seem to be aware of. Perhaps it is still the right way to go, but no one can make a good decision without knowing as much info as possible.