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Old 02-17-2015, 02:43 PM  
2MuchMark
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Originally Posted by Robbie View Post
I guess I'm "pro-nuclear" power as well.

But having said that...I was just watching the History Channel "Modern Marvels" about nuclear.

And they brought up that there is about 270,000 tons of nuclear waste (and growing daily).

It is stored in containers and buried. And a LOT of it is slowly leaking into drinking water.

I would think that would make the claims of fracking messing up drinking water look like a walk in the park by comparison.

Those are the old-style reactors. What we should have are these new ones:

Next-generation nuclear reactors that use radioactive waste materials as fuel
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