I know all you right leaners will figure that I would be against nuke power…..is that not what all radicals are….dead set on the use of nukes to generate power?

The truth is my opposition to it comes not from the emissions, which under normal operating parameters, a very clean source of energy…..my distaste for it is the by-product…..the spent fuel.

Not only is there very few ways to dispose of it but it also becomes very attractive to would-be terrorists, both domestic and international.

We do not get the whole picture of this situation because the debate inevitably comes around to the emissions and not the disposal…..and then there is this report…..

Newser) – The US dumped vast quantities of nuclear material off its coasts between 1946 and 1970—more than 110,000 containers, says one official count. Today, the whereabouts of many of those 55-gallon drums and other containers is a big question mark, the Wall Street Journal reports. “Many were not dropped on target,” according to a 2010 federal report. Their location is just one of several major questions raised by the Journal. It’s also unclear, for instance, how many dump sites there were: Government reports have given numbers ranging from 29 to 60. Then there’s the question of how much radioactivity persists, since some isotopes can stay radioactive for thousands of years.

Potential fish contamination poses another concern. A 1991 report on a site off San Francisco suggested some contamination, but there was no follow-up study—despite a California law calling for annual assessments. The state now says the site should be handled by the federal government, which in a 2001 study found only “very low levels” of radioactivity in local sediment. The barrels are spread across some 540 square miles of ocean floor, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said in 2010, and only 15% of it has been assessed. The agency says it wants to investigate the site further, but it doesn’t have the money. Click for the Journal’s full report.

The best we can do today is store the stuff and hope that all remains safe…….hopes and prayers do little when there is a breach.

I do not expect to see Godzilla or some 9 eyed freak because of all this…although it would make a great reality show for the once proud SciFi network but since has succumb to the insanity that is SyFy and reality bullshit.

If and when the science community comes up with a safe way to dispose of the by-product then I may change my mind on my opposition to nuke power but until then I remain a staunch supporter of the anti-nuke campaign.  Just as I am an opponent of the new light bulbs….eventually that mercury will leach off into the water table and then we can kiss it good-bye, our asses that is………