Real hope lies in renewable energy, not nukes
A commentary by Chris Talbot, who works at the Midwest Renewable Energy Association, ran in the Stevens Point Journal on January 18:
Last week, I read an editorial titled “Nuclear power safer, cleaner than coal.” I would hate to see the conversation end there — the real hope lies in renewable energy.
Nuclear energy always has been a source of contention. During the years, there have been numerous accidents, including an exploding fuel rod in Idaho that saturated three operators so completely their hands and heads needed to be severed from their bodies and buried separately; the release of radioactive waste into the air, water and soil downwind and downstream from Hanford site in Washington state; and a partial meltdown in Monroe, Mich., that is documented by a witnessing engineer in the book “We Almost Lost Detroit.”
Chris is the daughter of a former Kewaunee Nuclear Power Plant employee.
