Nuclear power is a good idea

As this is the last round, I do not want to bring in any more evidence on any cases unless it is brought up by you and I have to in order to defend myself. I am sorry, that is correct, I never did mention "transportation" only the safety of the containers that are primarily used in transportation. 1) My opponent brings up an interesting article about PBRs, however I don't really need to address it. This is because the very article he quotes has been disproven as outdated by one of my previous sources (#9 in round 1). http://nextbigfuture.com... directly targets the very source that my opponent lists (his #1 link in this round). I will just simply point back to that same article. Yes, Fusion reactors are currently expensive (as is everything when it is new). That doesn't mean that they won't get cheaper, everything does, heck look at how expensive and inefficient the first solar panels are. Also with tritium, since my opponent brought up the "dangers" of tritium, it is actually not very dangerous at all. We use it as a light for gun sights and watch faces [1]. This is because tritium only emits beta particles, not gamma rays, and so the radiation has little penetrating power and is actually only harmful is consumed or inhaled. It's safe enough that you could hold it in your hand (if it wasn't a gas), or on your wrist. 2) Pu-238 is not gonna be found in nature, but U-235 and U-238 and U-234 are and Pu-238 depletes pretty quickly in comparison. I also used the number 10,000 reactors to over exemplify the real possibility. And also, please remember that the site that I mentioned is not the only one we could have. We could have more then one. And considering that site holds the waste of 0.06% (meaning 1 out of 1686) of the worlds population but could take care of 8.26% of the world's nuclear waste, that proves that there is plenty of room for it all. As for the waste that breaks down, yes it is still there, and it can be moved now. And its space can be replaced by new waste. The "giant explosion which spews radioactive material for miles" is physically impossible. This has been said plenty of times and never disproven. The only "risk" is small leaks which kill a few plants and maybe a fish or two. As also shown (and not disputed) the worst incident in US history had no effects on any people. "We can't predict the future. Something like that could happen again, or something worse." Again, physically impossible with PBR and Fission designs. The only thing that can happen is minor leaks or a few dozen curries. The actual Pebbles (from the PBRs) are designed so that the nuclear reaction is unable to continue on it's own. So even if a terrorist group stole a ton of the pebbles and scattered them throughout a city, they wouldn't do anything to anyone. And tritium is beta radiation that is 1/250 the strength of uranium 235 (which we have been able to easily control since the 30's). "You already conceded that it's not possible to make it physically impossible to have accidents." No, I said that it is not possible to guarantee that absolutely will never go wrong. It is possible to guarantee that an incident like Chernobyl or TMI are not physically possible with these style reactors. "Oh, come on. You could maybe use that argument on someone else, but come on? What is the number one source of energy in Oregon? Hydroelectric power, of course." Hydro is currently supplies 2.6% of the US electricity demand [2] and there is only room to expand it by 50%, meaning it will top out at about 4%. I will leave it at that. "while the debate was excellent, my opponent did not give any reasons why we should use nuclear power" I do not need to, I only need to show that "Nuclear Power is a good idea" and I have shown that nuclear power is both safe and clean, and so is it's waste. That is why it is a good idea. I would also like to thank my opponent for starting a wonderful and enjoyable debate and hope that we may debate more in the future. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org... [2] http://en.wikipedia.org... [3] http://www.nirs.org...