2. By Carl Anderson

3. What do you think about when you hear nuclear?

4. Chernobyl or nuclear waste?

5. Homer Simpson?

6. That’s not nuclear power

7. How about green?  Nuclear energy is carbon free

8. How about Safe? Nuclear power is one of the safest industries on the planet. Affordable Nuclear Power is one of the cheapest ways to produce energy.

9. Where does electricity come from?

10. Why is coal is the most used energy source on the planet?

11. The cheapest way is always the best way to do things  Right?

12. Coal has hidden costs  It is polluting Major source of air born pollution and acid rain Coal produces more CO 2 than any other energy source  It is dangerous Coal mining is hazardous, and has long term affects

13. 20 th Century U.S. fatalities War fatalities: Vietnam, Korea, Philippines, Gulf War: 116,582 World War I & II: 521,915 Coal mining accidents: 130,000 CWP/Black Lung Disease: 635,000

14. A lifetime of burning coal will give you:  160 tons of particulate matter (ash)  2,300,000 lbs. of CO 2  65,000 lbs. of SO 2  18,000 lbs. of carbon monoxide  20 tons of toxic coal tar  6.4 oz. of mercury  1.2 oz. of radio-nucleotides

15. A lifetime of Nuclear Power  Will fission 3.5 oz. of Uranium

16. What about nuclear weapons? Atomic bomb uses ultra enriched fuel (95%) Nuclear reactor uses slightly enriched fuel (1.5%) U 235 or Pu 239

17. Nuclear generation reduces nuclear weapons  50% of all nuclear fuel (10% of all U.S electricity) comes from former soviet warheads.

18. If nuclear is so safe, what happened at Chernobyl? Springfield Nuclear Plant the Simpsons Nuclear Plant 4, Chernobyl, Ukraine April 27, 1986

19. Chernobyl accident  No safety structures  Obsolete Design  Safety overrides turned off  Culture of disregard  632 fatalities  2,000 cases of cancer

20. What about nuclear waste?  Only 4% of uranium is used in the fuel cycle of a standard nuclear power plant. France, Russia, Japan, Canada recycle spent nuclear fuel, the USA does not.  1% of nuclear fuel is converted into plutonium.  With a healthy recycling program & Plutonium/MOX reactors, nuclear waste can be reduced by more than 90%

21. What happens to nuclear waste?

22. Wait, what about Green options?

23. Renewables take a lot of space  4,000 – 8,000 windmills to equal one nuclear plant

24. Renewables have limitations  Wind Intermittent Not Scalable Unreliable Diffuse Carbon free  Solar Intermittent Most Expensive Carbon free  Nuclear Dependable On demand Affordable Safe Scalable Compact Carbon free

25. It’s been 30 years since a Nuclear Plant has been built in the US  In that time designs have gotten Safer Smaller Cleaner More efficient

26. So what?  ‘The only way to change lives is by changing minds.’ -Martin Luther King Jr.  Nuclear power will allow us to maintain both our environment and way of life into the 21 st century and beyond.