Feakonomics blog post about "Power to Save the World"

ByRod Adams

The popular New York Times blog titled Freakonomics noticed the Wall Street Journal review of Gwyneth Cravens’s book Power to Save the World and produced a post on 21 November 2007 titled Do Not Read This If You Are Anti-Nuclear Energy.

Apparently Stephen J. Dubner, the author of Freakonomics has been thinking and writing quite a bit about nuclear energy recently. He is encouraging people to take a hard look at what they think about the power source and why they might want to change their minds if they are adamantly opposed. You can find a number of posts on the topic at http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/tag/nuclear-energy/.

In the post about “Power to Save”, Dubner provided an important comment about his pulse taking activities of reading and writing about nuclear and reviewing the comments that he has received.

That said, it sure feels as if the tide is turning on nuclear power, at least in terms of the American public perception. And if you think public perception isn’t important, just think back to how severely the perception of the Three Mile Island accident changed nuclear power’s future.

Rod Adams
Rod Adams

Rod Adams is Managing Partner of Nucleation Capital, a venture fund that invests in advanced nuclear, which provides affordable access to this clean energy sector to pronuclear and impact investors. Rod, a former submarine Engineer Officer and founder of Adams Atomic Engines, Inc., which was one of the earliest advanced nuclear ventures, is an atomic energy expert with small nuclear plant operating and design experience. He has engaged in technical, strategic, political, historic and financial analysis of the nuclear industry, its technology, regulation, and policies for several decades through Atomic Insights, both as its primary blogger and as host of The Atomic Show Podcast. Please click here to subscribe to the Atomic Show RSS feed. To join Rod's pronuclear network and receive his occasional newsletter, click here.

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