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UK Goes Nuclear — US To Follow?
By Daniel Koffler / January 11, 2008
The British government is building a nuclear power infrastructure, and environmental ideologues are whining. There are several reasonable objections against the plan, but some are echoes of the anti-nuclear hysteria that has obstructed the building of nuclear plants in the US, as well as the UK, for decades.
Might America follow Britain's example? It's a technology that produces reliable energy, serves as a tremendous boon to the economy, and doesn't exacerbate global warming. But many environmentalists feel that technology should neither make a profit nor emerge from military research — which is never beneficial. Of course, Soviet mismanagement caused a disaster, but compare this with the entire nation of France.
Either you believe that we should employ all feasible strategies for combating global warming, or else you're just posturing for attention.
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Nuclear power is the only serious, proven way to reliably produce large amounts of electricity without producing larg amounts of CO2.
The people who are opposed to it are mainly coming from a knee jerk left wing background with a lot of CND and anti any form of big business baggage. Â Â It's good to see that the British government has FINALLY seen sense.
The co-founder of Green peace now supports nuclear power. He sees it as the best existing solution to the energy problem. We can't afford to wait for other soultions that are in the R&D stage, at best. Like Dan, I don't know much about the subject, but this sounds persuasive. http://www.wired.com/science/planetearth/news/2007/11/moore_qa
Not really having much knowledge on the subject, I have to ask: aren't there actually legitimate environmental concerns about what to do with the waste from nuclear plants?
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