>I'm pro-nuclear too, but the big evil of unlimited nuclear energy is
>unlimited waste heat. The amount of heat this planet is able to radiate into
>space is pretty much static. At least with petroleum we are releasing stored
>heat that was always here. Until we invent a way to radiate waste heat into
>space we had better out the brakes on splitting the atom.

We really want to be able to FUSE atoms, not split their shells...
far more efficient, and without the radoiactivity hazards &
radioactive waste produced by fission reactors.