Penn and Teller on Nuclear Energy

For the first time in decades, the New York Times may be making sense.

Oh, and as for the radioactive waste (which is stored in-house in super-thick concrete and steel stores, thereby eliminating its effect on the environment):
"Recent reports claim that coal power actually results in more radioactive waste being released into the environment than nuclear power, and that the population effective dose equivalent from radiation from coal plants is 100 times as much as nuclear plants.
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From Wikipedia.

Still, the radioactive waste is there. And nothing is ever safe from accidents. I don't feel comfortable with it at all.

Also, you haven't addressed the claim that it takes about 18 years for a fully operational nuclear power plant to make up for the energy that's used to build it and enrich enough uranium. How is this effective?

well no plant has ever been built since 1980, so that's 18 years, and new plants would have an effective life of over 100 years. And every plant has the potential to have an accident; if a terrorist attack blew up the hoover dam the damage would be immense. Nuclear power may not be perfect but it's by far the best option we have.
And the discharges in Sellafield happened because they pumped the waste in pipelines into the ocean IN THE 60'S instead of keeping it in concrete like they would today

Wind power is the absolute most inefficient power source known to man, and solar power's overhead costs are so high the conversion process would be far from efficient, especially considering its relatively low output efficiency.

Distillation produces the absolute purest form of water known to man. It's funny, the nuclear power plant, which so many believes hurts the environment, is actually acting to clean its water supply without wasting any of it. Hydroelectric power (though extremely efficient) requires damming up rivers, which depleats downstream water supplies, and burrying huge tracts of land under water upstream.

Do you have any idea how a nuclear reactor works? They use a nuclear reactor to boil water extremely efficiently, whose steam, in turn, turns turbines that generate electricity. Where does this water come from? Most often, already extremely heavily polluted water supplies. And where does it go? The steam (which is pure H2O with NO contaminants) gets cooled, condensed, and returned to the source in its cleanest, purest form. This is called distillation.

Doesn't this distilled water have a tendency to carry radiation onwards? At least Sellafield in England has been known for seriously contaminating the Irish sea with radioactive water. There's also been noticed a high ratio of leukemia in the area.

And no distilled water does not carry radiation. It's literally just H2 and O, that's it.

Ahhhhh those damn HIPPIECRITES they make me laugh.