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Originally Posted by Azure
I think the biggest fear people have with nuclear energy is the possible fallout from an explosion/accident, or something like that.
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Well maybe. That's not what I'm really worried about, but if I lived in Fort Mac and there was a nuclear powerplant down the road I might be. But I don't live there and I do know that they are pretty safe.
I don't know enough about the subject to say we shouldn't go that route but I did read somewhere that the mining for fuel (uranium?) is a fairly intense operation that burns a hell of a lot of energy just to find it. Now obviously it's a net-gain method of generating power or they wouldn't do it, but it doesn't sound quite as "clean" as some people suggest.
The idea of three-eyed fish in Lake Athabasca is kind of intriguing.