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Gallup's annual environment poll finds that 59% of Americans saying they favor nuclear power as one of the ways to provide energy for the United States, surpassing the previous high of 56%. A majority of Americans believe that nuclear power plants are safe.
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Well, France certainly has taken the lead in nuclear generation of electricity. Where to put the 'spent stuff' seems to be the
hangup...
As Secretary of Energy Steven Chu has noted as has Scientific American, nuclear power plants produce 100 times less radioactive waste than coal power plants. There are a little more than 100 commercial nuclear power plants in the US right now. You'd have to build more than 25,000 new nuclear power plants in the US in order to produce as much radioactive waste as coal electric power plants produce today.
Of course, most of the spent fuel from nuclear power plants can be recycled to produce even more energy.
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