Even without disasters, there’s always nuclear waste. But as The Economist recently observed, disposing of nuclear waste is a “political problem, not a technical one.”
It can be buried. The problem is finding people willing to have power plants or buried waste — or both — in their backyards.
But this is a time for new ideas, because the old ones aren’t working.
If it is a further incentive, plug-in electric cars powered off a nuclear grid have been calculated to run on the equivalent of US$0.25 a liter in today’s money. That’s about a quarter of the price of gas in the US today (and much less than that in most other parts of the world). Motoring would be cheap again. And clean.
So here’s my question. Am I nuts?
Tell me what you think by posting an online comment in the “Sound Off” section below my blog at www.cnn.com/goinggreen.
Hugh Riminton’s “Going Green” will appear in the Taipei Times every day this week until Saturday. CNN’s special coverage of “Going Green: Search for Solutions” continues until Sunday.
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