Nuclear energy... the solution to our energy crisis?

France currently has one of the most progressive nuclear power programs in the world. Its power plants do not inject carbon into the atmosphere and, since they have a kind of snap-together format, nuclear power plants can be bought cheaply and installed quickly.

This is something the Republicans are apparently jumping on as though its the magical solution to our problems.

France also has a much more socialist format to their government with strict federal government regulation and the federal government runs each and every plant. Something that the Republicans are not willing to do and seem convinced is the most evil way of doing anything. THEY want to privatize the single most dangerous form of power on the planet with little to no government regulation.

History has shown nuclear power to be one of the most dangerous forms of power known to man. Yes, its clean while its working properly but, when something goes wrong, it poisons the land for hundreds of miles around for hundreds of years making it uninhabitable by any form of life.

And people, there is no safe way to dispose of nuclear waste. None. Not a bit anywhere in the world. Right now, we're burying it. That's right, we're hoping that nothing leaks so it can kill us all off.

Spent fuel rods are stored for decades in a water basin on the site of the nuclear reactor, then transferred to metal containers to sit under ground to let it decay naturally while it gives off radiation everywhere around it. This will take 10,000 years before it will no longer present a threat to anyones safety. Even if the actinides are removed, it will still take at least 300 before it can be reprocessed properly.

Ladies and gentleman, this is the "great solution" that the Republicans have to our problems. Slowly poison us all to death while gaining a short term solution to some carbon emissions. Never mind that it does nothing to address the amount of fossil fuels spent burning in car engines daily.

No, no way, no how, ever is nuclear energy going to be the solution to our energy crisis.

Obama is right. He's looking for long term solutions that will be to everyones benefit. Yes, it will cost money in the short term, but so would the Republican ideas. Obama's solution would be better in the long term because he wouldn't be killing us all slowly.

Short term answers aren't the answer people.