Reply #33: Unequivocally NO; it's all about the waste

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People bellyache about the nanny state, but that's yet another reason I'm a committed Liberal: people really aren't that responsible. The kind of radiation in nuclear waste is shockingly dangerous, and only takes a couple of mistakes here and there to cause thousands of years of damage.

People forget.

There was a very sobering incident in Fall River, MA a few years back where kids were getting sick. The common element was that they'd all played at a park. Upon research, it was determined that the park was located atop a toxic industrial waste dump from the early 1800s. That's the point: these things get forgotten.

Mistakes also happen. It's just too risky.

We do not have a "right" to the energy we seem to feel we need any more than CEOs have the "right" to make ever more gluttonous compensation; we have a responsibility to make sure we don't destroy our common home: this planet. We are at a crossroads, and the stakes are everything.