The Sensible Substitute

Nuclear energy, at least the way it is produced in the United States, could replace the other ways of creating power we rely on here, but American minds have been poisoned against it by a decades old movie, The China Syndrome (1979). Nuclear power plants in America have a tremendous record of safety, with layers of redundancy unmatched elsewhere. We did have the so-called "Three Mile Island disaster" in the USA but that resulted in no deaths. The Soviet Union had the Chernobyl tragedy that did claim lives, but the Russian built reactor was relatively primitive with few of the safety backups found in other areas of the world. If we built more atomic power stations here, it would reduce reliance on carbon-based fuels and even mitigate the need to switch to solar or wind generation.