Beardedbruce-

I do hope you lobby hard for tough environmental regulations for conventional power plants, and for upgrading the older ones. Otherwise I might suspect you are just stirring the pot to provoke more response.

I would agree that environmental pollution from conventional power plants, and improper disposal of industrial waste, are major problems that are inadequately regulated by the current administration.

Would you please admit that nuclear power generation runs the risk of a catastrophic accident in our lifetime, far beyond anything that a major accident at a conventional power plant could incur. Japan in a major earthquake zone has just experienced multiple failures (including the cover-up) of cooling systems, emergency fire suppression systems, at their largest nuclear power plant due to a 6.6 earthquake. They were very very lucky (so were the neighboring downwind countries). Evidently the liquid and gas releases of radiation were not too massive, although it's still far too early to get reliable reports.

Mr. Red-

Very witty.

Charley Noble