New ad says: “Let’s build more nuclear power stations! They’re clean and safe.”

For decades we have been told that nuclear power is dangerous. In fact it is safer, cheaper, cleaner and more renewable than almost any other source of energy. Ask France. They have many nuclear power plants and cheap energy. Admittedly, they used a sensible cookie-cutter approach for maximum efficiency and safety. We did not. Now, we are closing our nuclear power plants such as Pilgrim in Massachusetts. This put immediate pressure on the Seabrook plant in the next state up – New Hampshire – as Massachusetts just switched to using power from there.

53 seconds is all it takes to cut through the myths about nuclear energy.

What an awesome new ad in the US 👏 pic.twitter.com/jy2g36F49n

— Will Shackel (@ShackelWill) August 20, 2024

The waste?

Use and reuse it and reuse it – and then bury it.

So-called “nuclear waste” still contains more than 90% of its potential energy. It can be recycled over and over again to multiply the original amount of energy by about 100X. It is safely stored in large steel and concrete containers until the fission products decay. 3/4 pic.twitter.com/xgkzOUvLRE

— Patrick Moore (@EcoSenseNow) November 23, 2021

HOW TO SOLVE NUCLEAR WASTE:

1. Collect the spent fuel
2. Put it in an iron container
3. Put that in a copper container
4. Put that in a hole surrounded by clay…
5. …Deep in stable granite.

Done.

Note: we can store it above ground but this is one failsafe way to bury it. pic.twitter.com/wqcL60DiLG

— Mark Nelson (@energybants) September 4, 2023

But..what about the waste? @ENERGY is moving forward with a federal consolidated interim storage facility project to help:

✅ manage the nation’s spent nuclear fuel
✅ reduce the number of locations where spent fuel is stored in the U.S.

➡️: https://t.co/AkqDRNgr3t pic.twitter.com/cGUv3xxCOV

— Office of Nuclear Energy (@GovNuclear) May 15, 2024