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Nuclear workers are a small group of a few thousand in the US that do “hands on”. The history of feast or famine, the death of good programs, the 75,000 scientific workforce that Clinton laid off in 1995 were working on everything from biofuels and related technologies, alternative energies, to nuclear waste.

I admit I perceive Democrats as anti-nuclear. Politics was a dirty word at DOE facilities but we knew when a Democrat was elected, we would lose funding like clockwork.

I also get stero-typed as not being an environmentalist because I am not a left wing liberal. That could not be further from the truth. I agree that Republicans have typically not made the environment a high enough priority. But then, people generally are the ones that dump and litter and leave the trash aren’t they? People need to clean up their mess and care. These bigger messes we have made, take support from all as well. If we could have agreed sooner, it would have already been done. No offense intended to anyone.

Please do not bring up Three Mile Island. I worked on cleanup there. Again, an inexperienced operator doing a routine startup during training took the system from automative controls into manual controls and shut down the cooling system on the core. Yes, it melted the core, made a huge mess. But the reactor building never lost integrity and no nuclear materials was ever exposed the public or left the facilities. The “explosion” was a steam explosion in side the reactor building. This happens in many industries using steam. Ignorance breeds fear. The US nuclear program has the safest track record of any industry and that should tell you something about the folks who are afraid because it is a vogue political view and a scientifically correct point of view. We used to call backwards thinking people a bunch of hicks. Now we call them politically correct Democrats and environmentalists. Hey you guys know less about what you are suggesting than you should that you are so totally against. We are capable of being the world leader in nuclear and we once were. Now France owns our best technologies and uses them. Nuclear is safer than any chemical solution by far.

I am 54, worked in the nuclear industry doing some of the most scariest talked about things with nuclear materials. I did it safely, with good equipment and know how to handle nuclear materials. You have to respect them that is for sure, but they offer energy, clean, carbon neutral energy and we have a near infinite supply of nuclear resources. Had we got the public on board in the 1980′s we could be like France and have 80% of our electricity coming from a clean source and have never generated all the green house gases these past 30 years. Global warming would perhaps not be so devastating. Hind sight is a killer, eyt we continue on in ignorance and rhetoric. Take someone’s insights and advice that has worked hands on knee deep in nuclear wastes, managing and handing special nuclear materials, working to clean up the cold war wastes for the sake of our environment. I deserve your attention. Nuclear energy is the safest production of electrical energy and our country is rich in nuclear energy. So who is stopping this from happening? The politically correct or the ignorant? I have listened to the ignorance until we are drowning in it. Gen X is suppose to a smart generation so prove it. What has the Gen X developed that is better than my old generation anyway? Make a list. Commit your lives as others have for the sake of gaining energy knowledge that all the workers have in DOE programs for nuclear developments. Then listen to that vast uninformed ignorance permeating the public for liberal political glory and Dr. No who wants to be our president. We can not afford NO any more. We need courageous and positive thinkers. Nuclear is a natural energy source and it emits nothing chemically. It is greener than the cars you drive and plastic wrappers on everything you dispose of and the Styrofoam cups which never decay that you buy and use, and the palm oil microwave popcorn you will eat without remorse of the 160 species endangered by loss of territory from palm oil exploits. Be thinkers and really look at what habits we all have created and what we OK and what we frown on. None of us has a plan for our own bad habits.

By the way, like it or not, any Republican including McCain will be bound to the energy policies of the Bush/Cheney Disaster. We cannot take that chance. He’s a good man, but his hands are too tied by party politics.

In theory, we could also use less energy, but I’m not holding my breath on that one.

Solar and wind are incapable of provide baseline power without even higher costs, and so remain out of reach economically at the present time.