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It’s unfortunate that the Bulletin wasted six pages on ways to revive the moribund nuclear power industry. But it’s a national tragedy that the waste was penned by the brilliant Robert Rosner, director of Argonne National Laboratory, which is doing critical work in the efficiency and renewable energy sectors. His time and Argonne’s resources should be expanded in those areas, not wasted on more nuclear pipedreams.
Rosner posits, then dutifully answers, the wrong question: “What needs to change so we can build new nuclear plants . . . one every four to six months for the next 40 years?” The question we need to answer is, “What must we do to make this construction unnecessary?”
Rosner’s solutions/suggestions uncritically regurgitate the same time-worn nuclear industry litany of unreasonable demands. These seem deceptively reasonable, and internally logical on paper. Yet they only address how to rescue nuclear power in its Platonic form, ie, as it exists in the abstract. The operating reality of nuclear power is far uglier, with myriad devils already hiding in details Rosner fails or chooses not to mention.
The reality is nuclear power can’t solve global warming. The numbers don’t justify nuclear’s horrendous waste of time and money—the two determinant factors for successful global warming abatement. Safer, quicker, more cost-effective carbon capture alternatives already exist and are not being implemented. Rosner and Argonne should turn their attention and resources toward that low-hanging fruit first.
David A. Kraft, Director
Nuclear Energy Information Service
Chicago, Illinois.
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