Many other people, all of them smarter than you, have said, hoped, or wished the same thing many times.
Babies are not mentioned in the article at all. Neither are adults or teens. No human at all. We're talking about medical waste, which is burned by law to protect all live humans, including babies, from disease. As a bonus, electricity is provided in a safer manner than using a coal or nuclear plant, both of which have actually not only killed babies but also caused many more to be born with unspeakably horrific mutations and diseases.
Actually I would much rather see Nuclear Plants a plenty, making so dang much electricity that we could produce Hydrogen by the tanker. Running that stuff to fuel the autos and the only worry was what to do next after we fill that Mountain in Nevada with waste in about 10000 years down the road.
Fill the next mountain over. Duh. I lived about 100 miles from Yucca mountain, where they were going to store the waste. I was 100% in favor of using Yucca mountain, and still am.
Nuclear waste is routinely reprocessed in Europe, but both Carter and Obama refuse to allow it here. We would be able to produce 60x more energy from the same amount of fuel. It would then take 2000 years to fill Yucca Mountain.
Huh? Carter and Obama? Weren't there some other presidents in between there that could have allowed it? Or are you saying Jimmy Carter currently has some executive power? Or are you talking about somebody else named Carter? barfo
You are right. http://www.emagazine.com/earth-talk/reprocessing-nuclear-waste/ More recently, George W. Bush pushed a plan, the Global Nuclear Energy Project (GNEP), to promote the use of nuclear power and subsidize the development of a new generation of “proliferation-resistant” nuclear reprocessing technologies that could be rolled out to the commercial nuclear energy sector. Federal scientists came up with promising spins on reprocessing nuclear fuel while minimizing the resulting waste. But in June of 2009 the Obama administration cancelled GNEP, citing cost concerns. Proponents of nuclear power—and of reprocessing in particular—were far from pleased with GNEP’s axing, especially in light of Obama’s earlier decision to close Yucca Mountain as the U.S.’s future nuclear waste repository. “GNEP may have gone away, but the need to recycle spent fuel in this country is more important than ever because of the government’s stupid decision to close Yucca Mountain,” said Danny Black of the Southern Carolina Alliance, a regional economic development group, on the Ecopolitology blog. “Without Yucca Mountain, the pressure is on the industry to do more with recycling.”
this must infuriate you! the invisible hand of the free market needs no such intrusions! at least the president gets it, a true fiscal conservative
