McCain and Nuclear Reprocessing
Obama should have hit McCain on his advocacy of Nuclear energy; his talk about reprocessing was strange, shallow, and alarming. Sure, Nuclear Reprocessing exists, but it doesn’t succeed in eliminating nuclear waste.
What the process does is to seperate the waste into different components. Some such as plutonium are used for nuclear weapons, some can be used to generate more energy, and - contrary to McCain’s implications - a significant amount is nuclear waste that’s going to be around a very, very long time.
This was a great opportunity for Obama to attack McCain on his understanding of foreign policy, domestic security, and energy. Nuclear reprocessing has been at the core of Iran’s attempts to obtain nuclear weapons, and it’s sad to see that McCain doesn’t really understand the issue.
On a positive note, at least McCain hasn’t started talking about some imaginary ability of the government to reprocess the investment bank’s toxic assets.
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