Enlisting nuclear power to solve our energy dilemmas and address global warming

Is the answer to our energy needs
and global warming to be found in
nuclear energy?

The Saturday, April 28, gathering Beneath the Wisteria will see the continuation of discussions about our use of energy with regard our response to climate change.

Many alternatives have been proposed. But discussions have rarely seriously focused on nuclear energy.

This argument demands we now genuinely consider this alternative.

A guest post on BRAVENEWCLIMATE by physicist and a radiologist, Bill Sacks, and English professor with a specialization in critical theory, Greg Meyerson, was an illuminating discussion entitled “Lessons about nuclear energy from the Japanese quake and tsunami”.

It was written about month into the Fukushima crisis. Both authors are based in the U.S.
A quick consideration of their thoughts can be found can be read here – “The nuclear energy solution”.

A longer and more thorough explanation is “Nuclear energy: The only solution to the energy problem and global warming”.

A preface to the above says:When humanity looks back on the few centuries of capitalism, it will be immediately apparent that a particular economic and social system, into which history led first Europe and then the rest of the world, not only hijacked myriad resources of limited supply, without concern for their longevity, but also disposed of the waste products in a careless way, destined to greatly diminish the livability of the planet. This global human process that will have occupied no more than the blink of a geological eye may yet prove to have made living conditions immeasurably more difficult for humans, as well as for other animals and plant life, for a much longer duration than the destructive process itself -- perhaps many millennia. These conditions will, if they come to pass, faintly echo the hostile world environment tens of millions of years ago, long before the very appearance of humanity on the world stage. The thorough elimination of such a system, by the vast majority of humanity who suffer at its hands, cannot occur too soon for the sake of the human species.