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Gottliebsen – Nuclear opportunity

Business Spectator – Nuclear opportunity

Gottliebsen makes an excellent point, and one that had not occurred to me previously.

The Chernobyl disaster is generally accepted as the most extreme example of the dangers of nuclear power generation gone wrong. According to a 2005 study by the IAEA and WHO as many as 10,000 deaths can be directly or indirectly attributed to it.

By contract, it can be argued that climate change has played a role in the increase of severe storms, ranging from Hurricane Katrina (1,836 dead) to Cyclone Nargis in Burma (at least 22,000 dead).

The link between climate change and such storms is still tentative – the evidence is not clear that these storms were made more severe as a result of changes already underway in our atmosphere. However, if even the most conservative scientific predictions about climate change prove correct, the potential threat to human life due to severe storms and rising sea levels is immense and will number in the millions.

It would be wrong to accept nuclear power as the universal solution to our problems – the issues around public safety, waste disposal, and proliferation are still very real. However, when is the last time that humanity has accepted a technology as being ‘finished’? Like it or not, the time has come to add nuclear to our arsenal of power technologies again, while maintaining the hunt for something better.

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