What's Stifling Nuclear Power?

Yet even though we don't need a "zero-carbon solution," because carbon dioxide is not dangerous, there is one energy source at the ready that could replace most fossil fuels in short order. Japan's Ministry of Health awarded his family compensatory' damages ) The worst nuclear plant accident in history occurred in 1986, with an explosion at Ukraine's Chernobyl facility, which lacked the safeguards inherent in nuclear-reactor construction in the Western world. [...]the safety record of nuclear power eclipses that of all other sources, including the much-younger media darlings of modern commercial wind and solar. ("Background" refers to radiation from sources such as the sun, soil, rocks, building materials, and potassium-40 in your own blood.) Regulators' tool for perpetuating the irrational ALARA approach is called a Probabilistic Risk Assessment (PRA), a methodology that evaluates public risk associated with the operation of commercial nuclear power reactors.