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“Nuclear power? Yes please!”:

Nuclear power is safe, affordable, and the waste problems are much more manageable than the public realizes. That was the take-home message from this year’s American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Chicago, where a group of experts from the US and EU participated in a session called “Keeping the Lights On: The Revival of Nuclear Energy for Our Future.”

Currently, the US lags behind Europe when it comes to new nuclear plants. There are several plants under construction across the Atlantic but, despite plans for 34 new light water reactors in the US, ground has yet to be broken on any of them. I’m not a betting man, but I’d be surprised if that remained the case a decade from now.

Since everything European is cool now, can one hope that, as Europe’s social-market economy and nanny-statism are imported to the U.S. in the next four years, some good ideas like building more nuclear plants can also sneak in on the quiet?

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