Nuclear energy in its least refined form – nuclear waste – has recently sparked several debates and protesters. Great powers on all sides realize that a crucial situation is being imposed on us by the aging of nuclear reactor facilities across the country. Over the past two decades, research has been conducted on Yucca Mountain to evaluate the location's effectiveness in becoming the nation's comprehensive nuclear repository, aka a giant radioactive mountain. Yet the hidden technology of reprocessing has somehow managed to escape the minds of many, or has been suppressed by large organizations such as Greenpeace and the Sierra Club. Reprocessing is recycling. It's simple, so why don't we use this equipment to reduce the amount of radioactive waste stored and continue the use of nuclear energy? I support the continuation of nuclear power and the reprocessing of spent fuel cells. This was highlighted in the last three projects I completed for this course: including an “even-handed” rhetorical analysis of the various arguments of Greenpeace, the Nuclear Energy Institute, and the Sierra Club. To me, recycling already harvested and enriched uranium makes perfect sense, but I am not trying to coerce others into believing that my opinion is the only one out there. I am simply trying to bring nuclear power and nuclear waste to the forefront of the minds of the American public in order to save my job and the employment opportunities available to my friends and colleagues. The most recent project in my collection of nuclear waste arguments took the form of a short advertisement, the "Click Boom Project" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtpxnb-kBKY ). The ad is intended to be published on a pro-nuclear/pro-repro paper...... middle of paper ......t the illogical reasoning used by Greenpeace in order to engage my audience. By connecting two completely different events or statements because they contained the same words (nuclear, radioactive, waste, shipping), I convinced the audience how ridiculous these statements could be. Conveniently, this tactic inadvertently played on the sympathetic appeal of viewers, creating an absurdity that a majority of the student body could correlate with. However, in my second project, the commercial one, to try to reach a wider group of people, I tried to appeal to popular culture. Using the song "The Choice is Yours" by Black Sheep, which is synonymous with both Kia advertising and the different choices available to car buyers, I took advantage of photos of nuclear depots and reprocessing to show that people always have a choice..