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Nuclear Power: Risking a Comeback

"That's not the whole story, of course. The hopes of a burgeoning nuclear industry imploded 27 years ago after the partial meltdown at one of the Three Mile Island reactors in Pennsylvania, followed by the horror of Chernobyl seven years after that. Plus, decisions made by utility regulators in the 1970s and '80s left companies barely able to pay off billion-dollar nuclear construction bills"

Why are people so up in arms about this? Nuclear power isn't really that dangerous...Chernobyl was caused by a few distracted workers, not by a failure in the whole system. And don't we know by now that the U.S. doesn't really have a reason to use bombs? That's a stupid argument because nowadays nuclear bombs are like 100 dollar bills; the people who matter have them in excess. No one's going to use nuclear power for harm in this day and age.

Clean Coal? New Technology Buries Greenhouse Emissions

"Still, fossil fuels are expected to provide 85 percent of the EU's energy in the foreseeable future, according to European Science and Research Commissioner Janez Potocnik."

Coming up with clean coal is good, but why not try for a renewable energy source, not just a cleaner non-renewable source? Who's to say we won't run out of both coal AND oil in the near future? Wouldn't we want a sure thing instead of a guess? It seems to me that maybe pretty much always means no. But no one no not no one likes to be let down.