[NukeNet] The candidates on nuclear power

[MoJo]

http://www.sfbg.com/blogs/politics/2007/12/the_canidates_on_nuclear_power.html   The candidates on nuclear power        Insight, the Nuclear Energy Institute's monthly pro-nukes pamphleteer, did a survey of the presidential candidates positions on nuclear power. The only one that's explicitly against more nuclear power plants is John Edwards. Fred Thompson managed to answer the question without really answering the question. They panned Dennis Kucinich, but for the record, in an interview with Grist’s Amanda Griscom Little, he said, “Nuclear has to be phased out. The hidden costs of nuclear are enormous -- of building these plants and storing the waste forever. It's not financially or environmentally sustainable.”

Here are the quotes NEI printed:
   
  Hillary Clinton: "When it comes to nuclear power, I'm an agnostic. We've got two big problems: What to do with waste? And how do we afford to build and maintain nuclear power plants? If we can deal with those two big question marks, I'm not against it."
   
  John Edwards: "Wind, solar, cellulose-based biofuels are the way we need to go. I do not favor nuclear power.....It is extremely costly...and we still don't have a safe way to dispose of the nuclear waste."
   

    Barack Obama: "Nuclear power is one of the few emissions-free energy sources available to us....I am open to the use of nuclear power production as a transition to new energy technologies, but I think answers to a variety of safety questions, such as how we are going to transport and dispose of nuclear waste safely, are required."

Bill Richardson: "The future in nuclear power is one that has to be on the table....Because nuclear power emits hardly any greenhouse emissions, and because its technology is improved, you have to look at it as an option."
   
  Rudy Giuliani: “We’re going to have to find a way to expand nuclear power, because it’s one of the ways in which we can give ourselves [energy] independence and also not have it impact on the environment, on pollution, global warming – the things that concern people.”
   
  John McCain: “The fact is, nuclear energy is clean. It produces zero emissions in operations. It has the lowest carbon footprint and is, therefore, undeniably a valuable tool for reining in greenhouse gas emissions both quickly and economically.”
   
  Mitt Romney: “We’re using too much oil. We have an answer. We can use alternative sources of energy – biodiesel, ethanol, nuclear power – and we can still drill for more oil here. We can be more energy independent and we can be far more efficient in the use of that energy.”
   
  Fred Thompson: “I am committed to investing in renewable and alternative fuels to promote greater energy independence and a cleaner environment, [and] an energy policy that invests in the advanced technologies of tomorrow and places more emphasis on conservation and energy efficiency.”





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  "It is worth noting that, in the USA alone, there are an estimated 45,000 sites which are polluted or potentially polluted by radioactive poisons --- according to a report commissioned by the Environmental Protection Agency in 1992 (see EPA 1992). Worldwide, there is radioactive pollution from above-ground bomb tests. There is also the radioactive fallout from the Chernobyl accident in Europe and the former USSR. The fact that humans have already created large amounts of nuclear pollution, adds to the moral argument for allowing no more."    http://www.ratical.com/radiation/CNR/YuccaMtnRWRP.html
  
 

       
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