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Agree
[Should fission-based nuclear power plants be made a bigger part of the energy-producing portfolio?] Absolutely. Right now about 20 percent of our power comes from nuclear; there have been no new nuclear plants built since the early '70s. The real rational fears against nuclear power are about the long-term waste problem and [nuclear] proliferation.
Mostly Agree
Right now, compared to conventional coal, [the risk-benefit equation looks pretty good for nuclear. The question is] - what are the lesser of two evils? But if we can reduce the volume and the lifetime of the [nuclear] waste, that would tip it very much against conventional coal.
Disagree
I deeply believe that in my heart and soul, that science, when put to the task, can and will I think give us much better energy solutions. [For example,] an early crisis Europe faced at the beginning of the transition from the 19th to the 20th century was [that] the constant agriculture on pieces of land depleted the soils..... And so what happened was, German chemists invented a way to synthesize ammonia, which became the basis of nitrogen fertilizer [and] got a Nobel Prize for that.
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