..just like American money! The sad part of the joke is that in order to actually realize the potential of this energy source, we need to avoid things like the Three Mile Island and Chernobyl disasters. What does this really mean? It means a change in the fundamental paradigms that have been the backbone of Industry and Government since the very beginning! No longer can we tolerate the petty, egotistical meddling of Management and Finance to dictate design, construction and operation of such complex and possibly lethal systems. We cannot allow the "Bottom Line" mentality of the beancounters to forestall required safety inspections or maintenance. A careful look at history show a willful disregard for the value of human life by such companies as Kerr-McGee, at best a group of wild cowboys from the Texas Oil Patch, and the US Government let people like this into the nuclear fuel rod business? This cannot continue, the basic guiding principle must be SAFETY, first and foremost. This also means building reactors with a common design, so that the economics of scale can bring the price of production and operations training down. Too often the American systems are "One-offs", with every plant being different. The French have a sterling record of keeping the designs and operational parameters of their nuclear power plants so alike as to virtually rule out problems of this nature. Their safety record speaks volumes about these issues - and goes virtually ignored by most of the people who eschew nuclear power. If you remove the incentives to award the contracts to the lowest bidder, and concentrate on the safety issues, then nuclear power can be green. Of course there are better ways to harness the atom than boiling water for a steam turbine driven alternator! Here's a hint: Bussard's Boron Fusion System.