Nuclear power is more than just an occasional plot device on The Simpsons. It's a source of energy that lights up our televisions and heats our microwaves. As we explore ways to harness alternative forms of energy, however, the future of nuclear power grows increasingly uncertain. Is nuclear power our best energy alternative, or is it time to pursue other options?
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Is Nuclear Power America's Best Energy Alternative?
Only one answer ...
If there is an answer to this question - and I believe there is no one answer - that answer can only be found by science. After all, it is science, NOT religion or politics or popular opinion that gives us this technological option in the first place.
This is a scientific question, not a political one. Are we to vote on whether or not 1+1=2? Are we to vote on whether the Earth is round or flat? Moving or stationary? Center of the universe or not? Are we to vote on what is true or not true in nuclear physics or the environmental sciences or biology?
Is the efficiency and safety of nuclear energy truly a matter of popular support? Can one just simply "opt out" of what is scientifically true or false?
There are no doubt positives and negatives to whatever source of energy human decide to put to their own uses. I have no doubt, this question will be decided according to benefits vs. risks assessment and assessments ONLY by those who understand the science.
Politicians and pundits need not apply.
- Naumadd
February 21, 2009 8:21PM
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Only one answer... just not what you suggest
There is one answer to this, but it can only be found by economics. Only a free market can answer what is "best" or "worse" because those words are relative words. How do you define best? In the sense that, I think, is implied above, best is a broad synonym for cost-efficient and practical with minimum risks. Therefore, let individuals in a free market choose whether or not nuclear power is "best" or not. Science is a tool in which we develop technology and make it more proficient, but it is the people that choose whether or not to use that technology. If government would deregulate at least some of its bans on using nuclear energy we could truly find out this answer.
Agreed, politicians and pundits "need not apply." Businessmen and those that need to use the energy, the individual citizens of the US, should decide--not government.
- nickodonnell
March 4, 2009 10:59PM
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