(This picture from junkscience.com.)
How worried about nuclear waste should we be? The little plastic drum holds ten grams of nuclear waste. It is the amount of residue produced by providing cheap, clean nuclear power to a family for one year with a nuclear reactor. Nuclear power can be profitably delivered to the home for less than a nickel per kilowatt hour.
In a hundred years, natural decay will reduce the contents of that tiny drum to one tenth of that which is in it now.
But, the worshippers of “Less” don’t care. They’re building inefficient, unreliable, expensive windmills, biofuel plants, and solar panels as if there’s no tomorrow. Windmills deliver electricity for about $1.20/kwh. So, if all your household power came from the wind, your power bill would go up twenty four times, as long as the wind was blowing. The people getting grants, subsidies, and funding don’t care. The last thing they want is nuclear power.
Replacing nuclear power with wind power is like replacing a pick-up truck with a twenty-mule team wagon.
