The Tiny Demon

              



435 Nuclear Power Plants
158 Storage Facilities
78 Waste Disposal Facilities

• Nuclear power is the only large-scale energy-producing technology which takes full responsibility for all its wastes and fully costs this into the product.
• The amount of radioactive wastes is very small relative to wastes produced by fossil fuel electricity generation.
• Used nuclear fuel may be treated as a resource or simply as a waste.
• Nuclear wastes are neither particularly hazardous nor hard to manage relative to other toxic industrial wastes.
• Safe methods for the final disposal of high-level radioactive waste are technically proven; the international consensus is that this should be geological disposal.

It is nice to hear all these. But are we going to dump these wastes in yet another planet? If we are not going to do that let us be ready to face the harmful effects calmly.