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Week 4: July 31, 2006 Focus on: Nuclear Energy Despite once being promised that electricity from nuclear energy would be "too cheap to meter," it is the most expensive way anyone's ever discovered to boil water. Some people say that nuclear energy's carbon-free electricity is the solution to our global warming problem. Unfortunately, six decades of research and hundreds of billions of dollars in subsidies have not made nuclear energy entirely safe, cost-effective, or freed us from the burden of tons of deadly waste that will be radioactive for, oh, the next 300,000 years or so. Before we resort to the nuclear option, it's important to understand that nuclear energy just isn't a very good deal. Before we trade one dirty and dangerous source of energy for another, it's time to invest in some real alternatives: efficiency, renewables, and other smart energy solutions. Nukes by the Numbers Carl Pope in Sierra: "Fantasy Nuclear" Dan Becker: "An Unsafe and Costly Choice" Davis-Besse: 3/16" from Nuclear Disaster On the Beach: A Conversation about Nuclear Energy NY Times: "Slow Start for Revival of Nuclear Reactors" Up to Top HOME | Email Signup | About Us | Contact Us | Terms of Use | © 2008 Sierra Club