Setting aside for a moment my concerns regarding the safety of Nuclear Fission, there is a clear and present danger associated with the promotion of Nuclear Fission as a solution to "Global Warming."
It is a dangerous distraction.
We need to take real substantive action
now. If we decided today to switch our entire infrastructure over to nuclear fission, this would have the tendency to send the message, "Relax, go back to business as usual, we've solved the problem."
We really cannot afford to have people continue "business as usual" while we wait for all of those plants to be built.
- Those (theoretical) plants would not be built for some time.
- Using current technology, there is not enough readily available uranium to power them.
Every watt that's generated by some alternative method today is a watt that will not be generated by burning fossil fuels.
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