Solar energy must be used as our next big energy source.
Nuclear Power--has got to go.
But where?
Nuclear power makes no sense, especially "green" sense, since being green is about reducing waste, especially, hazardous waste.
A nuclear power plant is built to last 50 years, and its massive hazardous waste lasts 500,000 years.
Where to put it...Hmmm.
Soon there will be nowhere to put California's "dying" nuclear reactors, let alone everyone else's.
Who thinks up these energy solutions?
Anyway..
Where will we put our radioactive toxic waste?
Where oh w...
Would you want tons of radioactivity sailing off your coast?
How about traveling on a truck up the 405 freeway?
How about dumping radioactive waste in your backyard?
Hanford, Washington stores radioactive waste underground in big containers.
Some of the containers are leaking.
Hanford officials requested money from Bush for new containers. Last I read about it, Bush still denied the funds.
Nearby Columbia River flows to Oregon.
People play by the river.
Animals.
Hanford is was famous for making atomic bombs, and creating the plutonium to be put in the bomb dropped on the Japanese city of Nagasaki. All the while, nearby residents ate oatmeal, read the paper, biked to work, feeling safe in the shadow of...
Eventually, residents were told about the bomb making in their backyard, and they were told it was safe.
Not.
And what about now?
500,000 years is a long time to keep this dangerous, cancer-causing toxic stuff, especially if the most powerful nation in the world can't afford proper-long-lasting storage containers built for 500,000 years.
Don't people in power have vision beyond their own nose, and generation?
When the nuclear giants--our power plants--are put out to pasture next time, potentially, eventually leaking toxins into soil? Well, I'm wondering will the next president (of this country and others) give the storage plants necessary funds to restore those containers?
No one wants radioactive waste from nuclear power plants. Except someplace in South Carolina. I read they'd take one more from us, I think San Onofre. Our latest radioactive dinosaur. We'll have several more in the next few decades.
And not to be too depressing, but what if there's another nuclear accident? Nuclear accidents can cause cancer in residents nearby, and if a nuclear meltdown's plume got into the atmosphere, because somehow the power plant became uncontained (it's happened) the wind would carry those isotopes God only knows where. To your community. Mine?
Accidents always seem to happen. We're human.
Human error. Human folly.
I hear about human error in relation to mistakes in many industries, including, humans behind a wheel.
Solar.
That's where I'm putting my money.
Remember the post I wrote on ETRADE--I'm VERY down on ETRADE--I took the money I traded there and set up shop, for now....we'll see how it goes.... at Tradeking.
I invested in solar companies.
Support solar. Buy solar. Construct with solar.
Small gestures make huge changes. 
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