Is It Time For More Nuclear Power? Why Are Most Americans So Afraid of Radiation - Don’t They Know Its Always Been Surrounding Us? Perhaps Nuclear Energy Just Needs A Good TikTok Video?

2021-05-06

The Best Paragraph I've Read: To fully understand progress, we must contrast it with non-progress. Of particular interest are the technologies that have failed to live up to the promise they seemed to have decades ago. And few technologies have failed more to live up to a greater promise than nuclear power. In the 1950s, nuclear was the energy of the future. Two generations later, it provides only about 10% of world electricity, and reactor design hasn‘t fundamentally changed in decades. (Even “...

The Best Paragraph I've Read:

To fully understand progress, we must contrast it with non-progress. Of particular interest are the technologies that have failed to live up to the promise they seemed to have decades ago. And few technologies have failed more to live up to a greater promise than nuclear power.

In the 1950s, nuclear was the energy of the future. Two generations later, it provides only about 10% of world electricity, and reactor design hasn‘t fundamentally changed in decades. (Even “advanced reactor designs” are based on concepts first tested in the 1960s.)

This paragraph comes from a blog post on the website The Roots of Progress. The post is titled: "Why has nuclear power been a flop?" The post is written by Jason Crawford. You can read the article here:

https://rootsofprogress.org/devanney-on-the-nuclear-flop

Zac and Don are joined by Duane DeMore who is a Health Physicist with Chesapeake Nuclear Services. The discussion centers around why nuclear power has never taken a large share of the energy market in America and in the world. Mr. DeMore shares his expertise on radiation and helps Zac and Don think about the data when it comes to nuclear power and society.

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