Back to it then. Nuclear power, because of the huge costs associated with building the plants, running them, and finally decommissioning them and dealing with their waste products, makes nuclear power about the most unaffordable means of generating electricity on the planet.

And that isn't even taking into account the insurance liability. But hey--if you can pass the liability off to the government, as was done to birth the nuclear power industry and get it going strong before Three Mile Island--then you don't have to concern yourself with all those pesky safety issues. And because the state, local, and federal governments all give the nuclear power industry exemptions on the storage and disposal of the waste--ie ignoring it--you don't have to worry about that highly expensive stage of the nuclear fuel cycle either.

And let's not forget, the industry also hasn't cleaned up it's uranium mining waste from the 1950s onward either. Why? Because they didn't have to! They were allowed to sell the tailings pile as construction materials in homes and schools! What a great plan THAT was!

Hint, hint--I wouldn't buy an existing home built in Grand Junction, Colorado if I were you!