According to Dr. David Goodstein http://www.civilbooks.com/index/book/0393058573.ht ml , if we replace all of our fossil fuel power making abilities with nuclear power, the earth has only 25 years worth of usable uranium fuel.
As far as the fears of meltdowns; there are new methods (developed by Sandia and Livermore, I think) to create reactors that do not go critical. I think it relied on small hard spheres made of fuel and carbon that when placed in a container, would react up to a limiting temperature.
Also, it was mentioned before, but I'd much rather know where a little bit of waste is going than have an innumerable amount of waste spit up in the atmosphere.
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According to Dr. David Goodstein http://www.civilbooks.com/index/book/0393058573.ht ml , if we replace all of our fossil fuel power making abilities with nuclear power, the earth has only 25 years worth of usable uranium fuel.
As far as the fears of meltdowns; there are new methods (developed by Sandia and Livermore, I think) to create reactors that do not go critical. I think it relied on small hard spheres made of fuel and carbon that when placed in a container, would react up to a limiting temperature.
Also, it was mentioned before, but I'd much rather know where a little bit of waste is going than have an innumerable amount of waste spit up in the atmosphere.
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