Having worked in various phases of the nuvlear industry from new construction to refueling outages and some government decommissioning projects over the past 35 years, I am appalled that the federal government is still waffling on what to do with the waste generated by our existing nuclear plants. Untold billions have been spent at various locations, including facilities in New Mexico and Nevada, that sit unused because of government bureaucracy. Several utilities have even filed suit to get the NRC off the dime to open at least one of these facilities.

In addition to everything else, the American public is gullible enough to believe everything that is printed or spoken by the news media. As a result, people are tried and convicted by the media before being brought to trial, and the nuclear industry has been effectively gutted by the lack of knowledge foisted on us by the liberal media. It's past time for the electric generating community to begin educating their consumers in the benefits of nuclear power. I don't recall ever having seen the media report publicly that the "meltdown" at Three Mile Island in 1979 was the result of operator error - operators overrode safety systems that created the problem. Even Chernobyl resulted from a poor design, and even though the resultant fire spread across parts of western Europe and effectively killed the city and required the relocation of the populace, it is still possible for tours to enter the area. Following the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that ended World War II, the areas have been rebuilt and repopulated. It's time to get real and know that the future of renewable energy in America truly lies with nuclear energy.