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tibarun | 8 years ago

Just the other day: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/05/0...

It's pure madness that we keep on producing such hazardous waste! And for what purpose? Cleaner energy? Nope! If you take into account the waste management needs, the Uranium mining, the risks involved and the fact that these nuclear plants have to be highly subsidized in order to keep working. Why are we still using such an obviously flawed technology? https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/05/170525141544.h...

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walterstucco|8 years ago

Because it's the only form of energy that right now could send us to Mars

We're not going there with solar or wind energy

theoh|8 years ago

The worldwide nuclear industry does not exist at the behest of some "let's go to Mars" lobby...