The department of no energy has been sabotaging nuclear power for forty years and shows no sign of letting up.
As a civilization, western society has painted itself into a corner.
I don’t understand why the enviro extremists are so against nuclear. Nuclear plants produce zero greenhouse gases.
Yes, we know about Three Mile Island and Fukishima and Chernobyl. Why are we letting fears from such events dictate our official energy policies?
And, refresh my memory, didn’t the safety protocols at Three Mile Island function as designed, which prevented a worse accident?
We need to balance risk and benefit with all of this, in my opinion. I would love to have nuclear plants everywhere, if the alternative is sitting in the dark, or sweltering in the heat of summer. But we seem incapable of balancing risk and benefit. Instead, we take a zero tolerance approach, we say there were nuclear accidents which happened, and because of that, we just shouldn’t have nuclear any longer.