Slashdot Asks: Do You Support Nuclear Energy? (gallup.com)

Reader mdsolar writes that for the first time a majority of Americans have told Gallup they oppose nuclear energy. Support peaked at 62% in 2010, but "as Americans have paid less at the pump, their level of worry about the nation's energy situation has dropped to 15-year-low levels," Gallup reports. Their latest poll found 44% of respondents still supported nuclear energy, while 54% opposed it, a trend which could eventually affect the future of nuclear power. The New York Times reports that operating licenses will expire for 36 of America's 99 reactors between 2029 and 2035. What do you think? How strongly do you support (or oppose) generating electricity with nuclear energy?

Comments

Re:Not about fear

[The Real Dr John]

Nuclear power is a dead technology, like CRT TVs. People in the business want to keep it going, but it is dead. You can't deal with the waste, and the accidents create uninhabitable zones in the middle of civilization. The proponents aren't thinking very hard when there are so many better alternatives.

This is unsafe technology from the 1950s, and no amount of tweaking it going to make it safe and affordable when you take the insurance, waste handling and disaster cleanup costs into account.