Kerry Bradshaw, Please do not associate solar and wind crowd as environmentalist. I did like the idea of them being called Shills. I think to allow these folks to claim the mantel of environmentalist is like Adolph Hitler claiming himself as a great humanitarian. Viva Nuclear Renaissance Jfarmer9

One is amazed at the stupidity of the alternative energy crowd. The issue isn't whether nuclear should be declard renewable, but why renewable is used rather than the accurately described "carbon-free." Carbon-free is what we want. We don't give a rat's ass about reneability - there will be nuclear fuel to power our plants long, long after they are decommissioned, so any claims by brainless environmentlaists about the desirability of "renewableness" are pure nonsense. And those renewables that are biomass, etc. pump tens of thousands of tons of carbon in the atmospher and are not carbon neutral and will do nothing to reduce carbon emmissions in the atmosphere. The Chinese are building 1 new 1100 megawatt nuclear plant every 2 months. Since a 1310 megawatt solar thermal plant can only average 300 megawatts, and last 20 years or one third as long as a nuclear plant, a $5 billion nuclear plant will equal $27 billion for solar thermal. Now I wonder why those figures are never made public by the shills for the solar and wind industry? Every four months the Chinese will create a nuclear plant that can produce more power than all of the windmills and solar plants constructed in the US over the past 10 years. At a cost of less than $2 billion per gigawatt. For you mathematically challenged environmental types, that means less than 2 cents per kilowatthour production costs, as opposed to 30 cents for California's brainless solar roofs, or 20 cents for the "more efficient" solar thermal plants, located in the sunniest location on the planet. As you can see, when the truth emerges, alternative energy technologies are shown to be ridulous ways of producing unreliable, uncontrollable power. It's appropriate that California is now fiscally bankrupt - they've been mentally bankrupt for years.