During the first hour of today's edition of NPR's Science Friday, host Ira Flatow will moderate a discussion on why environmentalists are "warming up to nuclear power":
Can new technologies such as the pebble bed reactor make nuclear power cleaner and safer than in the past? And how best should policy makers weigh the pluses and minuses of nuclear power, offestting reduced greenhouse gas emissions with the longterm safety and storage problems posed by nuclear wastes? Call in with your questions and comments at 1-800-989-8255 (2-3 Eastern).Technorati tags: Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Power, Energy, Technology, Electricity
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On the NPR program you can bet that molten salts wont be mentioned, even though they would close the nuclear fuel cycle without the aqueous reprocessing nightmare, and would only spit out 1/100th the waste of a light water reactor of similar power with only short lived fission products.