by George Lerner | Aug 25, 2012 |
Nuclear power produces a million times as much energy as fossil fuels, per pound of fuel, without releasing pollution or affecting climate. People think nuclear power releases lots of radiation, but actually fossil fuels release more radioactive material.
We don’t have to use a Light Water Reactor to generate nuclear power. Though we’ve been using LWR almost exclusively, it is not the best type of nuclear reactor, it is the design that coal/oil companies, who owned and still own USA Congress, picked in the 1960s. Continue reading What is a LFTR? Molten-fueled, salt-cooled nuclear power | Molten Salt Reactors (incl Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor)
