What technological advance has caused more harm than good?

[Al Skierkiewicz]

Originally Posted by GeorgeTheEng

I'd contend though that if it were utilized more, Nuclean Power would be a real benefit to the planet. It's cleaner and fairly safe (when people are not cheap and/or lax). Unfortunately you don't really have the ability to have the power without the potential for weapons.

George,
I have to disagree. The amount of radioactive waste that is building up in holding pens is getting bigger everyday. We need to look at the fact that this material needs watching for thousands of years or we need a better way of safely disposing of it. (quite frankly, I would think that grinding it up, mixing it with the tailings of uranium mining and sticking it back down in the hole it came from would work better than what we are currently doing.) The breeder reactors that France is so fond of are another source of fear in many repsects. The fact that they produce additional radioactive material as a product of operation and that sodium is used as the primary coolant scares me.