Richard Katz writes:
"That still leaves us with the question: as bad as nuclear power may be, is it worse than coal or oil?"

Which leave me with the question:
Why are we only comparing nuclear to coal and oil?

At a recent community planning meeting, there was talk of needing to provide extensive ventilation for the underground public-transportation bus and taxi areas.
However, this is still in the planning stage, and the facilities will not exist for another 10-15 years earliest. So I wondered, aloud, why we are assuming these vehicles will be burning gasoline or something else that gives off toxic emissions? Why aren't we assuming we can mandate that any vehicle that wants to use the facility has to be electric or otherwise so as to not need extensive ventilation? The current state of technology is only the current state of technology, not the eternal state of technology.

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Fred Uleman, translator emeritus