ironist15

Economics of Nuclear Energy

The author has it just right. Baseload power is what's most important, and nuclear energy has tremendous appeal. As a health physicist, I can tell you that the nuclear waste storage problem is 99% political and 1% technical. By considering wacky scenarios involving illiterate farmers growing all their food in the desert on top of the waste dump a hundred thousand years from now, "activists" have sought to make spent fuel storage look hazardous. In fact, nuclear waste can easily be stored for many thousands of years in perfect safety. Like the author, I notice that the anti-technology "activists" are quite willing to fly all around the world to act out their morality plays, and then return home to their air-conditioned upper east side condos. Listening to the rhetoric of the "environmentalists" would condemn billions to continuing poverty.