Chasinmendo wrote on Dec 3^rd, 2007 at 12:58am:

The greatest generator of nuclear waste in this country is medicine and the isotopes of Cobalt are some of the most dangerous. By the way Cobalt isotopes used in medicine are transported without any restriction in all communities of the US. You may be driving down the highway and its in the truck next to you. Any time you go near a hospital you are mere feet from radioactive materials.

I bet that's not something the majority of people are aware of?
The nuclear genie is out of the bottle like it or not.
Modern medicine has reaped its benefits and we as a nation should be focused on developing and reaping the good that it can bring instead of obsessed with the bad. Whether your a producer or consumer we all have a stake in the health of the planet. IF the proponents/opponents of nuclear energy would put aside the rhetoric and work together to maximize the benefits and minimize the risks, MAYBE we could get off the foreign oil teat and set a course for alternative fuel sources by setting the greatest producers in the world, the American farmer loose to provide the raw materials needed to get us off the fossil fuel merry-go-round?
Along with solar/wind/tide technologies we could energize the economy and insure our national security.