The fear and loathing of Chernobyl and Three Mile Island persist, but the "big city, trendy, I can beat you on a moral issue over a $10 cup of coffee, political correct, greenie, intellectually driven without practical knowlege" voter assumes that scientists have learned nothing about nuclear power and it's waste management since.
Poor them and their egotistical ignorance.
I believe there should be two power grids. The "Domestic Power Grid" and the "Industrial Power Grid".
As it stands the domestic user is subsidising the industrial user.
The "Domestic Grid" should be powered by renewables such as solar, wind tide, etc so that they (who are they) can stop bugging us with their "guilt complex, save the planet agenda".
The "Industrial Grid" should be powered by whatever means available provided strict environmental requirements are met and a (say 10%) surcharge is paid for R&D into development of sustainable energy scources to the benefit of all man and natural kind.
The "Domestic Grid" should be available to all domestic power users but optional in that if a user wants to have a "Stand Alone" system, there is no compulsion to be connected to the grid but available by choice.
The C.S.I.R.O., that you and I fund through taxes, proved that a "Stand Alone" power system for modern inner city households WORKS, some 30 years ago.
The gubnment doesn't want you to know about that though.
I guess you 30 somethings missed that one.
