Reply #23: Simple: nuclear power is not environmentally friendly, economic, or efficient.

[damntexdem]

The whole issue about Yucca Mountain is that use of nuclear energy generates nuclear waste that needs to be stored away from interaction with the environment for thousands of years -- an impossibility. We do not have ways to do ANYTHING, safely or not, over a period of thousands or tens of thousands of years.

Anyone who has paid excessive electrical bills because of nuclear power plants knows that nukes are not economical -- where I lived before, we paid rates 50% higher than a city 120 miles away, both served by the same company, but with different rate structures based on the building of a nuke plant years before by one of the formerly-separate electric companies.

Nuclear power will be part of the equation because plants already exist. The answer is not to build more of them.