[s_wilwerding]

Anyone else read this book? It's a great read about how we should be building substantially more nuclear plants, and how, for the foreseeable future, nuclear is our only viable "carbon free" energy source.

Some facts from the book:

The amount of fissile material it takes to provide lifetime power to one person could fit in a soda can

No one, not one person, has died due to a nuclear accident on American soil

Coal fired plants expose employees and nearby residents to far more radiation than a nuclear plant

In any case, a great read, written by a lady who had set out to write a book denouncing nuclear power.

In addition, nuclear scientists are getting the point where they can recycle nuclear fuel such that the bad radiation only lasts about 50 years, instead of tens of thousands.