A family in four in France, where they reprocess nuclear fuel, would produce only enough waste to fit in a coffee cup over a whole lifetime. A lifetime of getting all your electricity from coal-fired plants would make a single person's share of solid waste (in the United States) 68 tons, which would require six 12-ton railroad cars to haul away. Your share of CO2 would be 77 tons.
- Gwyneth Cravens
I saw this in a Wired interview of a former nuke protester who contends that the only way to rescue "our plug-hungry planet from catastrophic global warming is to embrace nuclear power." I've no idea if she knows what she's talking about, but it's staggering if true.
I've always been intrigued by the idea of nuclear power, especially after I read The radioactive boy scout years ago. If some resourceful kid can do that in his backyard, what's stopping us from doing it on a larger scale?