According to Nuclear energy institute; ‘Of all energy sources, nuclear energy has perhaps the lowest impact on the environment, including water, land, habitat, species and air resources. Nuclear energy is the most eco-efficient of all energy sources because it produces the most electricity in relation to its minimal environmental impact.'

Energy information administration says; ‘Nuclear power has been presented as providing net environmental benefits. Specifically, nuclear power makes no contribution to global warming through the emission of carbon dioxide. Nuclear power also produces no notable sulfur oxides, nitrogen oxides, or particulates. When nuclear power is produced, nothing is burned in a conventional sense.

Ok, maybe this is all true. Maybe nuclear power isn't the big horrible monster I think I know and remember. It's been twenty years since Chernobyl and more than that since Three Mile Island. But I bet the neighbors still aren't trilled about having a nuclear power plant in their back yards.

This is my paradox. The web is full of sites that are pro-nuclear power, and it's full of sites that are anti-nuclear power. National Public Radio has a program called Living on Earth that had a story (5-13-06) about Nuclear Power. The program had guests that sounded just as confused as I am. My mother and step father worked in the Nuclear fields for years, their jobs were neither pro or con. But from their prospective, there is nothing wrong with it.

But here is my dilemma, I grew up in the San Fernando Valley, near Hughs Aircraft and Rocketdyne. In the late 1950's and early 1960's there was an unreported melt down, which is coming to light today. The neighbors are up in arms, there is a free lance movie being made about it. And worse of all I know people who are unexplainably sick. It seems remarkable to me that twenty five years after I left the area, I know people who still live in the area who are very sick.

So how I reconcile this? Here I am thinking that I'm doing the best I can. I'm an ‘Ecobroker'. I work with builders, developers and investors that are environmentally minded. My sister survived a brain tumor and my father didn't. Were these illness's and others from the old neighborhood caused by ‘The Meltdown' in Canoga Park, or was it just bad luck? Should I believe the ‘pro' web sites?