I bet you pronounce it nucular, dont you?

I disagree. Nuclear energy done right is not a monster. It can be done right, and the rewards outweigh the risks when it is. It is irrationality that is holding it back. The image of a mushroom cloud

Jaczko is a protoge of Harry Reid, and despite the fact that he was chairman of the NRC is actually quite anti nuclear in his outlook. (Republicans aren’t the only ones that can do burrow in people to destroy government agencies.) His views are overly pessimistic about nuclear, especially when it comes to the timeline…

All fueled power plants having cooling towers. If they hear water to vapor in order to turn a turbine, they have a cooling tower.

And there are plenty of coal plants that also use cooling towers.

As Alex pointed out, all turbine plants put out vapor. It’s funny, because the public is so ingrained to the sight of cooling towers being nuclear, that the newest cooling towers (2009) retrofitted at a local coal plant (at the demand of environmentalist to put less hot water in bay) in Somerset, MA (right along I195)…

reactors release water vapor which is a much stronger greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide

Are you off your Zyprexa?

While water vapor IS a greenhouse gas, it’s a special one in that increased water in the atmosphere actually cools the earth due to increasing the albedo (a.k.a cloud cover).

Water vapor? Really? Yes, I get the theoretical potential as a greenhouse gas, but there IS a water cycle and that moisture tends to dissipate and make its way down to the ground as precipitation pretty quickly.

That’s a small part, he killed it for one of same reasons stated in the article that no one will invest - hysteria. Nuclear is dead for now in US but alive and well in other parts of the world. Having Yucca mountain would not have changed the equation significantly.

Umm not really. The amount of water vapor put out by nuclear poweplants (in fact all turbine power plants put out water vapor) is trivial relative water vapor generated by Suns action on bodies of water. I think you may have confused the report about the effect of the water vapor feedback loop on global warming. I.e…

Good job, blame it on the black guy.