Nuclear vs coal
It seems everyone is knocking nuclear because of the incident in Japan, without looking at the main cause of the release of toxic material . The earth quake and resulting tsunami were only a small part of the problem ,the big problem was the supply of back up power the nuclear plants to run the cooling pumps was designed cheaply and poorly.It is another example of awarding contracts to the lowest bidder or someone with connections.
If the cooling pumps had to have had the proper power supply there would have been no over heating of the core and no release of toxic material into the envioment
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Coal seems tobe the fuel of choice right now and what will happen with this form of fuel will be that the air on this planet will be poisoned and instead of 1 million children dying each yr from pollution it will be 10 million .
The green house effect will run wild and destroy the planet