Seven Reasons to Back Nuclear Power

I can think of many more but there's a great article from Fin24.com:

NUCLEAR power has two paradoxes. The first is that an energy source that has proved itself over decades to be safe, clean and economic should be perceived as being dangerous, dirty and expensive.
The second is that a technology that is so well understood and on which information is so easy to obtain should be the subject of such wild ignorance. Andreas Späth's article, "Six Reasons to Ditch Nuclear Power" (News24, February 27) neatly illustrates both. I shall answer each point in favour of nuclear power and add a seventh.

Be sure to check out his sources for future use.

Comments

Anonymous said…

It is really, really, really difficult to conceive why the dogma about this spectacularly successful form of energy persist.

I have been fielding this misconceptions for many years and no matter how much reason and data I put forth, at the end of the day, with a pile of numbers and facts, I am met with blank assertions of unreality.

I actually don't think that those engaged in irrational denial are popular, so much as they are loud, though. I could be wrong about that, but I think the truth is really starting to sink in.

-NNadir

March 2, 2007 at 4:32 PM

Fat Man said…

My belief is that opposition to all things nuclear was "ideological and memetic warfare"* against the United States which "... has been a favored tactic for all of America's three great adversaries of the last hundred years..."*

"... it was the Soviet Union, in its day, that was the master of this game. They made dezinformatsiya (disinformation) a central weapon of their war against "the main adversary", the U.S. They conducted memetic subversion against the U.S. on many levels at a scale that is only now becoming clear as historians burrow through their archives and ex-KGB officers sell their memoirs."*

What better way to defeat one's enemy than to get him to throw his most valuable weapons away.

*Reference.

March 2, 2007 at 9:22 PM

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