February 7, 2013

5 Reasons Why Liberals Hate Nuclear

Ashutosh Jogalekar, Scientific American


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Many of my friends are science-loving liberals. Many of them are also environmentalists. But most of them are against nuclear energy, and this is where I disagree with them. Over the years I have had several conservations with these friends about nuclear power and most of their objections seem to boil down to a handful of arguments that are well-meaning but often ignore some basic facts. . .

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