overall issue, check the readings at the end of this page... http://energyseminar.stanford.edu/node/4\\... Our descendents will indeed have reason to spit on our graves, if they can find them, if we continue our mental laziness about reality. Nova, you obviously have no idea about costs of alternatives. The cost of nuclear electricity is the lowest, worldwide. The cost of windmills, in terms of emissions per MWeHr is twicw that of nuclear. Whether you choose to honestly study alternative systems or not, others do and the results have always been clear. Only hydro & nuclear provide similar, low overall power costs, with hydro having a greater environmental threat. Local solar is also becoming competitive, with little environmental impact. AlexC ... wrong. There are current published studies on the LCOE for various technologies. Nuclear is fairly expensive - not as expensive as solar, tied with advanced coal with CCS and more expensive than wind. In recent auctions, new wind bid 8.3 c/kWh while new nuclear bid 10 c/kWh. Of course solar is expensive because half the cost is red tape. But if all you're going to do is wrangle about the direct costs of a thing, that's misguided. Among the things we should care about is the quality of the environment - that's not some far away place where polar bears roam - it's what we knock around in every day. The Romans had a law that you couldn't let your stink blow into your neighbor's yard. Now we have laws that a)