President Obama finally mentioned safe Nuclear power today, April 23.

But the lunatic left knows it works and therefore opposes its use. That is how we define lunacy. Lunacy (insanity) is repeatedly doing things over and over that just don't work.

Bob Brinker had a nuclear scientist on his money talk show several months ago who explained the French nuclear program and why their safe nuclear power was the real answer to our energy crisis. Ultimately we would need to develop fusion power but nuclear power from fission could buy us a few thousand years. Obama advisor, Warren Buffet, last year agreed with Bob Brinker and cancelled his wind power investments. The French now meet more than 80% of their energy needs with safe nuclear power and have not had a mishap in all the years they have been using it. In the whole western world, only American Democrat Socialists and the American lunatic left still oppose nuclear power. And demagogue Harry Reid in the Senate is the prime opponent. Reprocessing spent fuel is necessary to reduce nuclear waste by 95%. Then safe storage in Yucca Mountain is needed until if and when further reprocessing and permanent disposal is desired. As it is, as we spend nuclear fuel the radioactivity of the earth is depleated because we used most of it up and that is why it is called spent fuel. So when we store spent fuel in the ground we actually put less radioactivity back under ground than we took out to burn. That is why consuming the nuclear fuel makes the planet safer. We can even convert nuclear warheads to safe electrical energy and make the world much safer. Here is what France has done.

France's decision to launch a large nuclear program dates back to 1973 and the events in the Middle East that they refer to as the "oil shock." The quadrupling of the price of oil by OPEC nations was indeed a shock for France because at that time most of its electricity came from oil burning plants. France had and still has very few natural energy resources. It has no oil, no gas and her coal resources are very poor and virtually exhausted. In the USA environmentalists convinced President Carter that the world was running out of oil and there was nothing he could do. The environmentalists laughed when candidate Ronald Reagan proposed the world increase the supply side of oil.

French policy makers correctly saw only one way for France to achieve energy independence: nuclear energy, a source of energy so compact that a few pounds of fissionable uranium are all the fuel needed to run a big city for a year. Plans were drawn up to introduce the most comprehensive national nuclear energy program in history. Over the next 15 years France installed 56 nuclear reactors, satisfying its power needs and even exporting electricity to other European countries. The American supply side plan gave the world another thirty years of breathing room until the growth of the undeveloped countries like China and India overwhelmed supply. Now we finally cannot find enough oil to sustain world growth.

American lunatic leftists claim there is plenty of oil and we should drive up American energy costs until wind and bio-mass energy is competitive. But the immediate effects of their ideas have been to drive up the price of food and cause greater world starvation especially in corn dependent socialist societies. It is interesting to note that starvation only seems to occur now in countries with lunatic left socialist cultures. Smarter socialists use nuclear energy. The American lunatic left have also shut down most American hydroelectric plants and removed the dams because they are afraid it hinders the fish spawning in rivers. The state of Washington used to export their hydroelectric energy but now they don't have enough for themselves. The American lunatic left stopped the recent wind energy farm proposals on the New England seacoast because they were afraid that sea gulls will fly into the slowly rotating blades and be stunned and could drown. Now they say that there is plenty of oil and America should not begin drilling to have oil coming on line when the world economy recovers from the current recession. The French have concluded that the lunatic left uses psychology to exploit deep seated human myths and fears.

Ironically, the French nuclear program is based on American technology. After experimenting with their own gas-cooled reactors in the 1960s, the French gave up and purchased American Pressurized Water Reactors designed by Westinghouse. Sticking to just one design meant the 56 plants were much cheaper to build than in the US. Moreover, management of safety issues was much easier: the lessons from any incident at one plant could be quickly learned by managers of the other 55 plants. The "return of experience" says Mandil is much greater in a standardized system than in a free for all, with many different designs managed by many different utilities as we have in America.

Things were going very well until the late 80s when another nuclear issue surfaced that threatened to derail their very successful program: nuclear waste. Now, using the very recovery processes that the American lunatic left oppose in the USA the French were able to consume most of the waste to create additional energy.

French technocrats had never thought that the waste issue would be much of a problem. From the beginning the French had been recycling their nuclear waste, reclaiming the plutonium and unused uranium and fabricating new fuel elements. This not only gave additional energy reducing the need for the fuel, it reduced the volume and longevity of French radioactive waste. The volume of the ultimate high-level waste was indeed very small: the contribution of a family of four using electricity for 20 years is a glass cylinder the size of a cigarette lighter. It was assumed that this high-level waste would be buried in underground geological storage and in the 80s French engineers began digging exploratory holes in France's rural regions.

To the astonishment of France's technocrats, the populations in these regions were extremely unhappy. There were riots. The same rural regions that had actively lobbied to become nuclear power plant sites were openly hostile to the idea of being selected as France's nuclear waste dump. In retrospect, Mandil says, it's not surprising. It's not the risk of a waste site, so much as the lack of any perceived benefit. "People in France can be proud of their nuclear plants, but nobody wants to be proud of having a nuclear dustbin under its feet." In 1990, all activity was stopped and the matter was turned over to the French parliament, who appointed a politician, Monsieur Bataille, to look into the matter.

Christian Bataille resembles the French comedian Jacques Tati. His face breaks into a broad grin when asked why he was appointed to this task. "They were desperate," he says. "In France, executive power dominates much more than in Anglo-Saxon countries. So that if the Executive asks parliament to do something it means they are really at the end of their ideas."

Bataille went and spoke to the people who were protesting and soon realized that the engineers and bureaucrats had greatly misunderstood the psychology of the French people. The technocrats had seen the problem in technical terms. To them, the cheapest and safest solution was to permanently bury the waste underground. But for the rural French says Bataille, "the idea of burying the waste awoke the most profound human myths. In France we bury the dead, we don't bury nuclear waste...there was an idea of profanation of the soil, desecration of the Earth."

Bataille discovered that the rural populations had an idea of "Parisians, the consumers of electricity, coming to the countryside, going to the bottom of your garden with a spade, digging a hole and burying nuclear waste, permanently." Using the word permanently was especially clumsy says Bataille because it left the impression that the authorities were abandoning the waste forever and would never come back to take care of it.

Fighting the objections of technical experts who argued it would increase costs; Bataille introduced the notions of reversibility and stocking. Waste should not be buried permanently but rather stocked in a way that made it accessible at some time in the future. Europeans felt much happier with the idea of a "stocking center" than a "nuclear graveyard". Was this just a semantic difference? No, says Bataille. Stocking waste and watching it involves a commitment to the future. It implies that the waste will not be forgotten. It implies that the authorities will continue to be responsible. And, says Bataille, it offers some possibility of future advances. "Today we stock containers of waste because currently scientists don't know how to reduce or eliminate the toxicity, but maybe in 100 years perhaps scientists will."

Bataille began working on a new law that he presented to parliament in 1991. It laid plans to build 3-4 research laboratories at various sites. These laboratories would be charged with investigating various options, including deep geological storage, above ground stocking and transmutation and detoxification of waste. But in reality the nuclear energy process itself is a detoxification and purification process. Fissionable material already present it the earth is irradiating everything around it. That material is mined and concentrated so that a sustained much faster nuclear reaction can occur and in days the radiation content is reduced to what normally would occur in millions of years. Essentially each reactor gets its energy by converting radioactive Uranium into non-radioactive lead. The French then remove other radioactive wastes such as any created Plutonium by concentrating them and extracting their energy again removing radioactivity. The waste material produced from the radiating of the surrounding earth is the same kind of low level radioactive waste that the radioactive uranium produces if it is left in the ground. Therefore the nuclear energy program purifies the earth by removing highly radioactive materials and replacing them with the low level radioactive materials that will occur anyway if the Uranium is left undisturbed. These solid wastes are turned into a glass product that virtually eliminates any possibility of being penetrated or dissolved by water in the earth. Then they are store in extremely arid locations similar to the locations where uranium is mined that in addition have no ground water. The glass product is sealed in stainless steel containers that can be inspected, removed, reprocessed at a later date or further encapsulated in reinforced concrete. The net effect is the detoxification of the earth by accelerating the decay and elimination of the earth's radioactive materials (i.e. uranium) in nuclear power plants to produce low cost nuclear energy.

But as with hydroelectric plants (i.e. the state of Washington) and windmills on the Atlantic coast (i.e. Naragansette bay), and offshore oil drilling… the American lunatic left opposes nuclear energy (i.e. anywhere). These sources of energy have no CO2 foot print but the American environmentalists don’t want them in their back yard. Instead the American lunatic left support the continued use of fossil fuels at prices that impoverish Americans.

The energy consumed in producing a glass solar panel (mining, melting, fabricating) exceeds the net energy produced in the life of the panel. The actual output of wind energy farms has been demonstrated to be about 25% of their quoted (design) lifetime output. The goal of American environmentalists is not the lowering of our carbon footprint but is effectively the enrichment of a few lunatic left manufacturers who cannot produce any products with a net energy benefit, the Arab kings and princes, and world oil company executives. And they blame you and me who they force to consume oil for the C02 damage to the environment. The American lunatic left offers no worldwide solution except blame, regulation, worldwide poverty and ultimately starvation.

It is therefore not surprising that Warren Buffett, a key Obama advisor recognizes that nuclear energy is America’s future.