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Tag: RethinkingNuclear

  • The Cowardice of the Anti-Nuclear Consensus

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    Ada Koca
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    Nuclear energy killed fewer people than coal. That sentence should end the debate, but it never does, and the reason it never does is the first thing worth examining. Chernobyl is not a memory for my generation. Fukushima unfolded when we were children, and whatever appeared on television left no trace most of us can…

  • Fusion Energy and the Art of Perpetual Promise

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    Ada Koca
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    Fusion energy has been thirty years away since 1950. In the 1970s they promised it by 2000. In the 1990s, by 2020. The current target is 2050. This is not a timeline. It is a tradition of postponement, and anyone who treats the next announcement as different from the last one is not paying attention…