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Major Corporate Shift to Solar Energy and LEDs

CT Programmer said: "Hydrogen, solar, wind, sea waves, atomic, who knows what else lays ahead."

Insofar as atomic, I don't like the idea of the radioactive isotope, technetium, being dumped into the English Channel, as the French are doing:

www.motherjones.com/ne...

brief excerpt from the above link:

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But its reprocessing operations, as with Britain's notoriously leaky site at Sellafield, have racked up such a roster of problems that in the United States they'd be shut down as gross violators of the Clean Water Act. Every year Areva, the French conglomerate that handles reprocessing, dumps so much radioactive liquid into the Channel that, says Lochbaum of the Union of Concerned Scientists, "there are certain beaches where the effluent pipe is where you can get a suntan at night.

"I'm not going to say the French are 'no blood, no foul,'" Lochbaum told me, "but they're not quite as concerned about effluents as we are. They tend to believe more in 'the solution to pollution is dilution.'" They are, however, in violation of European Union pollution regulations—largely because the waste contains the dangerous isotope technetium, which so far no one has found a way to remove.
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Of course, my dislike of technetium and other nuclear waste doesn't mean it will be phased out, or that the nuclear power industry will disappear -- only that it should.