Nuclear energy saves us all

"Let's just hope there's not a meltdown. (Please direct all elbow jabs at Justin, from whom I adapted that line.)"

Financial meltdowns seem much more likely and costly than nuclear meltdowns. The frequency of a nuclear meltdown, if I correctly recall numbers I was familiar with a decade ago, is about once in 50 years. The consequences are arguably milder than most financial crises that we take note of. The frequency of these financial crises seems to be stacking up at about once in five years. No contest, if you ask me.

John Tierney had a good piece on Nuclear Energy in nytimes.com recently;

http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/07/a-new-image-for-nuclear-energy/

I really think that Obama's approach is more likely to gives us more nuclear energy plants than McCain's. McCain would be fought all the way by those concerned about the problems. Obama tries to solve the problems. I do think we need to build more nuclear plants but carefully. We also don't want to block nuclear by setting unrealistic limits on waste disposal.