http://www.echonet.orghttp://www.echonet.orgThere is green nuclear technology that produces almost no waste, what little it does produce decays within 300 years, and there is no risk of meltdown. But it was suppressed by the US Govt because it doesn't produce the waste needed for nuclear warheads. See the following reference: Wired.com: Thorium, the New Green Nuke Thorium hit a dead end. Locked in a struggle with a nuclear- armed Soviet Union, the US government in the ’60s chose to build uranium-fueled reactors — in part because they produce plutonium that can be refined into weapons-grade material. The course of the nuclear industry was set for the next four decades, and thorium power became one of the great what-if technologies of the 20th century... ...In 1965, Weinberg and his team built a working reactor, one that suspended the byproducts of thorium in a molten salt bath, and he spent the rest of his 18-year tenure trying to make thorium the heart of the nation’s atomic power effort. He failed. Uranium reactors had already been established, and Hyman Rickover, de facto head of the US nuclear program, wanted the plutonium from uranium-powered nuclear plants to make bombs. Increasingly shunted aside, Weinberg was finally forced out in 1973. To recount, this clean thorium reactor (Green Nuke) that has no risk of meltdown and produces less and very short lived nuclear waste ...and produces very, very cheap electricity. The fact that this technology was proven and available over 50 years ago and completely stifled by the US government in favor of high risk reactors (because they produce weapons grade plutonium) is appalling. Every American (and the rest of the world) should know about this technology, it's history, and the possibility of clean and inexpensive nuclear produced electricity.BobBTue, 12 Jul 2011 09:30:31 -0700http://www.echonet.org