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Uranium and Nuclear power.
So very much cleaner than coal.
But, we have no plan, even to make a plan, to deal with the radioactive waste. Right now it is all being stored on site like the Fukushima reactor in Japan. They had an entire reactor devoted to waste storage.
The best plan that I have ever seen is to take the nuclear waste from traditional plants and feed it into advanced nuclear reactors. That means we gotta build one or more of these things and/or ship it to the plant (in France?). We are not even able to agree that the stuff can be shipped around the USA (to Yucca Mountain), that alone around the world.
Note the half-life of some of the spent radioactive fuels is loooong. "Certain radioactive elements (such as plutonium-239) in “spent” fuel will remain hazardous to humans and other creatures for hundreds or thousands of years." (Radioactive waste, 2013, para 1)
Environmentalists are starting to become a lot more happy with Nuclear as we all look at the alternatives.
From my point of view, nuclear is never an option until there is some plan for waste. Even a bad plan (like Yucca Mt) is better than no plan.!:-(
Reference
Radioactive waste. (2013, July 8). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 20:32, July 10, 2013, from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Radioactive_waste&oldid=563340315
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