NYT LETTERS
“The Most Expensive Technological Failure of the Modern Age”
February 27, 2012 · 1 Comments
Source: NukeFree.org
The Sunday, February 25, New York Times Opinion Page carries a pro-con debate on nuclear power.
Here is our entry, published as the first reponse to a pro-nuke letter:
Nuclear power is the most expensive technological failure of the modern age. Three Mile Island, Chernobyl and Fukushima top the list of its negatives. But in strict economic terms, it cannot compete. Solar, wind, geothermal, hydro and other forms of green power are cheaper, cleaner, safer, faster to build, require no federal limits on liability and create no radioactive waste. The same is true of increased efficiency and conservation. It’s time to recognize reality and leave atomic energy behind.
HARVEY WASSERMAN
Bexley, Ohio, Feb. 22, 2012
The writer is the author of “Solartopia! Our Green-Powered Earth.”
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Thorium power plants, fast breeders, EROI, all unmentioned.
It’s boring to listen to these ideologues. Nukes work fine. The realistic comparison is deaths per megawatt-hour, which nukes win hands down.
Pollution in manufacturing and consumption of fossil fuels? Never mentioned. Realistic math about energy consumption and production? Conspicuous by their absence.
Go to http://www.theoildrum.com for serious discussion by actual experts in the fields.