Tuesday, August 01, 2023
Nuke News
New nuclear reactor enters commercial operation, first in US in 30 years.
David Strom:
I am convinced that most environmentalists have stood in the way of deploying nuclear power not because they fear it—coal plants and coal production kills more people in a year than nuclear power ever has—but because they oppose energy abundance. Degrowth is the watchword—fewer people consuming less is the goal, not cleaner growth with abundance.
That’s why you see power plants getting closed and replaced with less generation produced by unreliable energy. The electric car future is more about eliminating most cars themselves—obviously so given that the environmentalists oppose expanding generation to meet electricity demands. And forget about putting in anything like enough transmission to “electrify everything.”
America should have gone nuclear decades ago, but alarmists have slowed both the construction of existing designs and slowed the development of better and cheaper designs. We will be paying a price for this for decades to come.
