When will nuclear power get going again? BACKGROUND January 29, 2022 Nuclear power for generating electricity and manufacturing synthetic fuels is the only way to go for the modern world for the future. Progress on nuclear’s deployment has been brought to a halt in North America and Europe by anti-nuclear activists and short-sighted governments. Some advocates for nuclear power accept the assertion that CO2 from fossil fuels is a pollutant, which it isn’t. CO2 is the molecule of life, not a toxin. Doubling atmospheric CO2 from 420 ppm to 840 ppm and doubling again to 1680 ppm will only have a small impact on increasing Earth’s temperature, if at all. See these hotlinks: CFACT, CLINTEL, CO2 Coalition, Cornwall Alliance, EIKE, Friends of Science Calgary, Heartland Institute, Kalte Sonne, OISM, SEPP, The Energy Advocate, & TRCS.
About two percent of Earth’s free CO2 is in the atmosphere. A lot of the other 98 percent is in the oceans, with most of the rest in plant and animal life. The oceans will retain or release to the atmosphere CO2 as a response to the physics of complex processes that have been at work for eons. Governmental efforts to reduce carbon emissions and carbon-capture technologies will be as ineffective and wasteful as they are unnecessary. Billions of people desperately need energy from fossil fuels. Most people in Russia, China, India, Latin America, and Africa, are not concerned about fossil fuels causing catastrophic global warming. Nuclear power advocates shouldn’t be either. There is no need to be.
Supporters of nuclear power need to work together to remove the blockades of obstructionists — among them burdensome regulations — rather than promoting notions that the world needs to be saved from CO2. An actual threat to the well-being of people are irrational fears of nuclear power and CO2 and those who exploit them for money and power.
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