John McCain and Nuclear Energy

[wakunahum]

Compare coal to nuclear.

Coal is very dirty with lots of greenhouse emissions.

Nuclear has little emissions (estimates 3-5% of coal).

Coal's waste goes into the air, soil, and water that eventually gets into people when they breathe, eat, or drink.

Nuclear's waste is contained in toxic containers.

Both have waste but I would rather have it in a container than in my body and world.

Renewable is the best and I hope to get there, but getting rid of coal is best for the time being.

[breakfastisready]

"In the early 1970s when I helped found Greenpeace, I believed that nuclear energy was synonymous with nuclear holocaust, as did most of my compatriots. That's the conviction that inspired Greenpeace's first voyage up the spectacular rocky northwest coast to protest the testing of U.S. hydrogen bombs in Alaska's Aleutian Islands. "

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"Thirty years on, my views have changed, and the rest of the environmental movement needs to update its views, too, because nuclear energy may just be the energy source that can save our planet from another possible disaster: catastrophic climate change."

Patrick Moore - cofounder of Greenpeace