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[quote user="zardoz"]  Uh, I wasn't trying to ignite yet another MMGW debate; I was merely trying to point out that nuclear might not be such a bad alternative to coal...railroad interests notwithstanding.[/quote]Well, here's the ironic thing........the USA is energy independent in the electricity generation field - most of our electricty comes from coal and hydropower - so there's no economic reason to force a massive changeover from coal-fired power plants to nuclear.  It's in the transportation and home heating fields where the USA is dependent on foreign sources of energy, e.g. oil and natural gas.  So why are we so bound and determined to undermine our electricity generation policy via radical change (which always induces negative economic consequences), all the while continuing to depend on OPEC et al for our transportation/home heating fuels, ethanol and biodiesel mandates notwithstanding?If anything, we should first get ourselves off the foreign stuff via CTL promotion to produce synthetic diesel fuel and heating oil, at least to the point of having some hedging power.  Then and only then should we start talking about replacing coal with nukes for electricity generation.
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