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1. How big are nuclear-power reactors?

2. How much fuel is required for a nuclear-power reactor?

3. How much power is produced by the nuclear fission of one uranium atom, compared to the power produced in burning (aka oxidizing) the carbon in a single fossil-fuel molecule such as comprises coal, oil, gas, etc.?

4. How much greenhouse gas is produced by a nuclear electrical-generation plant? By a coal-fired electrical generation plant?

5. How much electricity is generated in the U.S. by nuclear power? Coal-fired plants? Hydro? Other?

6. How much electricity is generated in France by nuclear power?

7. Is the earth's core or the surface of the sun hotter? Why?

8. When was the first nuclear electrical-generation plant built in the United States? The last?

9. How many nuclear electrical-generation plants are currently awaiting federal government approval, including those under construction in anticipation of approval?

10. How many nuclear electrical-generation plants are being constructed in China? In India?

11. What do the answers to Questions 8 and 9 say about the economic viability of nuclear power?

12. What do the U.S. Department of Energy statistics say about the economic viability of nuclear power?

13. How important is President Obama's nuclear-industry insurance program for economic viability?

14. Of the three well-publicized nuclear-power accidents in the 50-plus years of nuclear electrical-power generation, what was the problem at Three-Mile-Island in Pennsylvania in 1979?

15. What was the problem at Chernobyl Ukraine in 1986?

16. What appear to have been the problems at Fukushima Daiichi?

17. How much more powerful was the Japanese earthquake which registered 9.0 on the Richter scale, than the most-powerful earthquakes that California has experienced in the last 110 years?

18. Did either the Japanese earthquake or the resulting 43-foot-high tsunami that followed breach the integrity of the containment chambers for the reactor cores at Fukushima Daiichi?

19. Would the Japanese tsunami's knocking out the emergency generators that were designed to provide back-up electricity for the reactor cores' cooling system at Fukushima Daiichi, a 40-year-old Generation II plant with a 25-year-rated useful life, have done the same at Generation III nuclear plants?

20. Why did Fukushima Daiichi also have problems with spent fuel rods that were stored on site in pools of water designed to keep them cool?

21. What are the U.S. plans to deal with spent fuel rods?

22. Why do the French NOT have spent fuel rods?

23. Is any form of energy risk-free?

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