Perhaps most ridiculous of all is the suggestion that we 'keep' our radioactive garbage for the use of our descendants. This 'solution', I think, requires an immediate poll of the next 20,000 generations.

There is no place where we can safely store worn-out reactors or their garbage. No place!

We've got to search back to our last known safe landmark. I can't say exactly where, but I think it's back there at the start of the Industrial Revolution, we began applying energy in vast amounts to tools with which we began tearing the environment apart.

Is the minor convenience of allowing the present generation the luxury of doubling its energy consumption every 10 years worth the major hazard of exposing the next 20,000 generations to this lethal waste?

I don't think we have very good records about what they were thinking except, as I pointed out earlier today, that they did invent our political system.

For how many people do you think might yet stand on this planet before the sun grows cold? That's the responsibility we hold in our hands.