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Gulfnews: Cleaner solutions lead to murky problems

Cleaner solutions lead to murky problems By Leah Bower, Special to Gulf News  February 09, 2009, 23:11Everybody is going nuclear – or at least everyone seems to be thinking about it as a shortcut to cheap plentiful electricity.I don’t know that I buy into it being an alternative energy source. ……………it certainly isn’t green………………………..everyone is going to have to find storage facilities for the radioactive waste produced by these plants.

Already it is almost impossible to build a waste site in the US or Europe without encountering incredibly hostile opposition from nearby residents. While China might not have that problem, most other nations are going to be hard-pressed to find dump sites inside their borders.

If everyone starts building reactors, who’s going to take the waste from nations desperate for safe storage?

Here in lies the problem with a band-aid energy solution like nuclear power: Everyone could end up with enough energy, but also with a load of radioactive waste that no one will touch.

Gulfnews: Cleaner solutions lead to murky problems

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February 10, 2009 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | MIDDLE EAST, wastes