I'm+Going+to+Go+Nuclear!

Is nuclear energy the next best thing? Should we begin to focus on producing and building new reactors across the U.S. to supplement our power supplies and prepare for the coming end of oil? Things to Keep in Mind:

1. Typical reactors cost around $700-million to construct and banks and lending institutions have little interest in financing new plants. 2. Clean up costs of spills such as the minor leak at TMI have cost 1.2 billion so far. 3. No permanent underground facilities have been built yet for the storage of high-level radioactive wastes that need 10,000 to 240,000 years of storage. Yucca Mountain the only facility so far is estimated to cost 43 billion (by tax payers) and it may still never open due to safety concerns. 4. According to the EPA some 45,000 sites in the US may be contaminated by radioactive materials and may cost 230 billion to cleanup over the next 75 years. 5. Is it reasonable to accept nuclear energy for a US option but deny it to other countries such as Iran or North Korea? How do you police such an issue long term?