http://gotsense.wordpress.com/2007/01/22/nucular-power/ An Alaskan's View on our world Wed, 06 May 2009 02:52:01 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://gotsense.wordpress.com/2007/01/22/nucular-power/#comment-21 Deirdre Helfferich Tue, 23 Jan 2007 21:41:00 +0000 http://gotsense.wordpress.com/2007/01/22/nucular-power/#comment-21 Nuclear power is <a href="http://www.yesmagazine.org/article.asp?ID=1064">incredibly expensive and dangerous</a>, not just in the storage problems, but in the mining, transport, and refining of ore. It's also a nonrenewable power source: There's only so much ore out there. The subsidies cost the federal taxpayer buckets. And plants do increase the background radiation, even when well run, <a href="http://www.radiation.org/">causing health problems</a>. Nuclear power is incredibly expensive and dangerous, not just in the storage problems, but in the mining, transport, and refining of ore. It’s also a nonrenewable power source: There’s only so much ore out there. The subsidies cost the federal taxpayer buckets. And plants do increase the background radiation, even when well run, causing health problems.

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