WHAT HAVE CONGRESS BEEN DOING ABOUT THIS? NUCLEAR ENERGY IS THE CLEANEST ENERGY THERE IS, AND NOW TO KNOW THAT THERE IS A CLOSE LOOP PROCESS TO RECYCLE NUCLEAR WASTE, AND YET WE DON'T DO THIS, AND YET DON'T EVEN BUILD NUCLEAR ENERGY IN OVER 20 YEARS AS THE SOURCE TO FREE US FROM DEPENDENCE ON FOREIGN ENEMIES BOGGLES THE INTELLIGENCE OF WHY CONGRESS DOES NOT PROMOTE THIS CLEAN ENERGY. THIS IS SUCH A CLUSTER FUBAR.
European countries, Russia, India, and Japan already reprocess nuclear fuel — the actual materials used to make nuclear energy — to separate and recover the unused uranium and plutonium, reduce waste and safely close the nuclear cycle.
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The 40th anniversary of the Clean Air Act underscores the importance of nuclear energy in meeting the nation’s environmental goals. Signed by President Richard Nixon on Dec. 31, 1970, the Clean Air Act has improved the quality of the air in most U.S. cities and communities.
Nuclear energy plants don’t burn anything, so they produce no combustion by-products. Last year, U.S. reactors prevented the emission of 2 million tons of sulfur dioxide (SO2), a precursur of acid rain, and 560,000 tons of nitrogen oxide (NOx), a key component of ground-level ozone and smog. (Put another way, U.S. emissions of SO2 and NOxwould have been 2 million tons and 560,000 tons higher, respectively, if fossil fuels had generated the electricity produced by America’s 104 nuclear power plants.) In comparison, that same year, the U.S. electric sector emitted 5.8 million tons of SO2 and 2 million tons of NOx. In 2009, nuclear plants also prevented the emission of 647 million tons of carbon dioxide and thousands of tons of fine particulates.
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