Quote:Three words: About freaking time.
Now if he'll work on some kind of treaty to get reprocessing brought back (one of Carter's biggest offenses) so we can take the "waste" from hundreds of thousands of years to waste that that takes about 700 years to decay away to background.
(and I bet some of you are wondering why waste is probably quoted, that's because what we consider waste is mostly still usable fuel, about 2% of the total volume is not fuel. Of that 2%, half to two thirds is usable while the remaining amount is the true waste which must be stored. The upside of the actual waste is that is only takes around 700 years to decay away to background levels, ie, harmless. The true waste is maybe a quarter ton at most after reprocessing instead of the 50 tons that come out of a reactor now. We are, in essence, throwing the baby out with the bathwater since Carter stopped reprocessing.)
And what is the reason for not profiting from cheap electricity? Oil-lobbiest? Or is it not so easy as you say it is?
I mean just blaming it on something that Carter did a few decades ago seems somehow too simple to me.