Unfounded fears about nuclear technology may be undercutting the fight against climate change.
Mark Nelson, managing director at Radiant Energy Fund, an organization he founded to help protect nuclear plants around the world from closing, invites all opponents of nuclear energy to take him up on this challenge.
Speaking in a recent interview with Interesting Engineering, Nelson calls attention to what he sees as a disconnect between the reality and the perception of nuclear energy in the fight against climate change. Few technologies are as divisive as nuclear power seems to be. The word is psychically linked to the disasters that occurred at Fukushima and Chernobyl, and with popular series dramatizing such events, such as Netflix’sAlongside the potent, oftentimes antagonistic relationship the public has with nuclear energy is the fact that more and more environmentalists are beginning to take up its banner.
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