Nuclear Power Wrong for the Future
- By Rep. Dennis Kucinich
- Special to Roll Call
- March 2, 2007, 1:22 p.m.
Nuclear power is doomed by the enormous long-term cost to taxpayers and rate payers of the siting, securing and storing of radioactive waste for thousands of years. Emerging operational safety issues will put nuclear power back in the spotlight in a way that will cause public reappraisal of the wisdom of continuing to build new plants. It is likely that nuclear power is past its prime and will begin a long-term phaseout in favor of less expensive, more environmentally friendly, alternative-power sources, such as wind and solar energy.
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