Nuclear problems can be solved

The world can't afford the renewed anti-nuclear backlash. Existing “green” energy sources aren't green and are inadequate. They're distressingly polluting, sporadic, non-scalable, and/or they don't produce sufficiently more energy than they consume. The sporadic nature of many of these sources raises many issues with regard to backup technologies.

We have a large solar array and have investments in alternative energy companies, so we're not anti-alternative energy.

When you boil it down, less energy means less food and water. The world is about to have less food and water because our traditional energy sources have passed peak to an extent that we are risking more and more dangerous alternative sources.

Nuclear power has big problems. But as in the current crisis, much of it appears to be with waste disposal. Japan's reactors appear to be a containable problem; it's their waste pools that seem to be the biggest risk. There are ways to reprocess waste to reduce the size of that problem and there are other types of reactors that appear to address most of the existing problems with nuclear reactors. Look into Liquid-Fluoride Thorium Reactor technology.

This reactor variation wouldn't have put Japan's population at risk. Watch the video “Dr. Kiki's Science Hour: The Nuclear Alternative” at http://energyfrom

thorium.com

William Smith

Iowa City