Dangerous Power

Nuclear power may never reach it's potential. Science knows how to make the power work. We can bomb things, drive a ship across the sea, and produce huge amounts of electricity. That's the good side. On the bad side we know how to use nuclear power destroy every living thing on  the planet. France, for example, manufactures most of it's electrical power using nuclear energy. The process creates dangerous nuclear waste. What is France doing with it? Is it shipped out of the country? Buried deep in the ground? Contained in storage containers? The options are endless, but however they are disposing of the nuclear waste, it still threatens the entire planet. What ever they are doing is simply a holding of the danger into the future. They are passing the problem, the danger,  on to future generations. So is America - and all of the other "nuclear nations".

Should this be a concern for humanity?

In America, billions of our tax dollars subsidize energy production. The division of dollars per megawatt hour is interesting: 

• Natural gas, oil, and coal . . . . . .$0.64  
• Hydropower  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $0.82 
• Nuclear  . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . $3.14   
• Wind .  . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . $56.29  
• Solar . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . $775.64 

In America (and probably France and other nuclear nations) environmentalists search for the most environment friendly power source. The way to produce adequate nuclear power is known and efficiently economical. It could reduce our dependence on of fuels found in the ground. We are rapidly moving away form nuclear power development for two significant reasons: 

1. Science does not know how to contain nuclear power to protect the environment and humanity.  
2. Science does not know how to safely dispose of nuclear waste. 

Is anyone working to solve these problems?