Originally Posted by jplinville

While many think nuclear is cleaner...look at the waste products from it. We still don't know what to do with the waste. We had a proposed sight for high level radioactive waste, but it was halted by the Obama administration.

Look at the Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, and Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disasters. While technologically, we have a better handle on nuclear power, the potential for disaster is greater on a larger scale.

Coal and natural gas are safer and easier to control than nuclear, and can be made cleaner than it is now.

Until we have a the ability to safely store the waste somewhere, I don't see nuclear as being safe.