John sent me an article with a very interesting argument in favor of nuclear power. It’s author is clearly a John McCain supporter, but politics aside, I am curious to hear from you. Do you think nuclear power is “humanity’s next great industrial advance”?
Please read the article. Then share your thoughts by clicking “comments” above.
…this isn’t just about energy. Our whole economy is at stake. If we’re ever to free ourselves from foreign energy supplies and turn this country into a productive society again, it’s going to have to be by pushing through to the next era of human progress — the age of nuclear power.
So here goes.
Let’s begin by understanding that the scale of the energy stored at the nucleus of the atom is so great — so completely unlike anything in human history — that people are having a hard time understanding it. Everybody thinks of the atom in terms of a big, big bomb. But that’s the wrong approach. You have to think of it as a small, small amount of matter producing almost unimaginable amounts of energy. That’s what makes uranium so easy on the environment — because it takes only a very small quantity of material to produce statewide levels of electrical power.
Let’s look at some numbers…
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