Reasons to be Cheerful (part 2)

30 years ago today, on March 28, 1979, roughly 25,000 people lived within five miles of the giant cooling towers that became symbols of the nation’s worst commercial nuclear accident.
So quickly have people forgotten. The reactor was so badly damaged that it has never been restarted. It sits there as a [...]

Reasons to be Cheerful (part 1)

There’s lots of reasons to be cheerful. Maybe more nuclear energy will be one. Beginning this series of posts, I can’t help but ponder a number of questions.
Let’s start with nuclear waste. We already have spent fuel rods in storage at 121 operating and decommissioned reactors spread across 39 [...]