I know the old school democratic position is to oppose nuclear power. But it is the only hope for a rapid expansion of non-carbon based energy production.

why don't they build their own power plants on their own grid? that way their own domestic terrorists can shut them down or blow them up without taking down the city?

BTW anybody know what happened to the toxic water from Fukashima?
Dumped into the ocean.

Yes, I'm dead serious.

The water dumped from Fukushima caused almost no harm to the local flora and fauna, but it DID stop humans from fishing those areas, which caused significant harm.

It essentially created a new wildlife sanctuary overnight. Same with the Fukushima Exclusion Zone on land. Wildlife exploded once humans left.

The fact of the matter is that humans, doing everyday human stuff we all take for granted like fishing, farming, and driving to work every day, are MORE harmful to the environment that a nuclear reactor melting down. It's a crazy concept to wrap your mind around.

…. then you would ever know. Biological Magnification is real.

And Zapotecizhzhia which is still in danger.

Glad it takes 10/20!yrs for most nuclear reactors to be a reality with the permits from hell.

For the next 40 yrs Japan will be dumping that radioactive water in the ocean. Our Pacific fish could have “ low” levels of radiation but way less than a dental x ray.

I remember yrs ago when the Albuquerque Journal said everytime it rains in Jemez/Los Alamos NM, plutonium from the 1940,s dumped in arroyos around Los Alamos goes running down the Rio Grande BUT not to worry. Now- Albuquerque gets its drinking water from Rio Grande.