Getting a Grip. Know Nukes

With global warming threatening famine, disease, mass extinctions and massive coastal flooding, and with peak oil threatening to take down the global economy while shredding our social fabric and proving obsolete the whole concept of auto-based culture and suburbia, suddenly nuclear energy looks promising. In true hedonistic American fashion, we can have our cake, lots of it, and we can eat it, barf it out and eat it again and again. In this case, we can build a thousand nuclear power plants, juice up all of our electric and hydrogen fuel cell cars and whiz about unfettered by reality. Global warming and peak oil all solved
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