>>> otherwise it can get very expensive and NYC could be at a greater risk of having a black out

Ah, Keith, it's great to be young...do you remember the black out of last (2003) August? Do you remember who lost power? The whole FRIGGIN Northeast. They're all interconnected on a grid. Gone are the days when a local power plant would supply the local village with power. In fact nuclear reactors in our neighbor to the north, had they been on the grid, might have prevented the blackout.

It's fine to be against nuclear energy, just know the facts. If your solution to meeting our future energy needs is not nuclear, then what is...because right now we're not able to go it with wind, water, solar and fuel-cells and the like...it's nuclear or more coal or oil burning polluting power plants...