Electricity is about to become the most valuable commodity on earth

Why do political leaders avoid discussions about nuclear safety?

• Three Mile Island in 1979 killed zero members of the public. Chernobyl was a Soviet design that unfortunately led to many deaths, mainly due to chain of command issues from the Soviet Government at the time.
• Fukushima was a Tsunami accident and not a nuclear accident. Lessons have been learnt from the emergency back up design.
• France generates 70 percent of its electricity from nuclear and enjoys some of the lowest carbon emissions and electricity prices in Europe.
• France is the world's largest net exporter of electricity, generating over €3 billion annually from exporting surplus low-carbon, nuclear-powered energy to neighboring European nations.
• America's 93 aging reactors still produce 20 percent of our power with a safety record that makes every other electricity source look like Russian roulette.
• The U.S. Navy has operated all of their nuclear reactors on submarines and aircraft carriers for 70 years without a single operational casualty.
• The entire civilian nuclear fleet worldwide has a lifetime death rate per terawatt-hour LOWER than solar and wind when you count installation accidents and rooftop falls.

Why are political leaders so hostile to nuclear generated electricity?

• The chart from the Energy Institute proves the point in living color: thirty years, eight trillion dollars, and the needle barely moved. The green "nuclear" line didn't expand because the political leaders driving this agenda never support electricity wisdom conversations.

Why don't political leaders ever come up with solutions?

• When citizens in the USA send messages to their leaders, they usually ask them to "do something". This is like asking an arsonist to "do something" to help a building owner collect insurance. It is difficult to fault our leaders, because they all "do something". Yet their "something" does not include solutions. For nuclear power, the consequences of doing nothing are becoming dire.
• We have been blessed with the answer to cheap, unlimited electricity, yet our leaders prefer to promote monopolies devoid of anything that will upset the flow of money. For nuclear power in the US, that is the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). While the NRC is devoid of any hint of moving the nuclear power industry ahead, they still exist. Are they increasing the safety of what is already the safest industry in the world (no injuries during normal commercial operations in almost 70 years of world-wide operation; Chernobyl was not an "accident")?
• Is the NRC considering the quality of life for even a single person in the world? NO. They have stopped progress for nuclear power in the US (and, arguably, in the world) for over half a century. Yet they are staying in business through fees paid by the very customers they purport to be serving. So, they are "doing something" as requested by the citizens. Yet the "something" they are doing is lashing people to the pole of economic hell by denying them the power source that can set the world free of electricity worries. So, one solution is to close the NRC and allow real progress to benefit the citizens of the world. In short, what we need is leadership, not lethargy.

Yet our leaders in America treat nuclear generated electricity like it's the devil's work. History tells us political leaders will continue to bitterly cling to the political safety of the climate story. Electricity reality tells us that it's time to start energy-wisdom discussions and start building nuclear power for continuous, emission-free, and uninterruptable electricity to meet the demand that is expected to grow by over 40% over the next decade. With no competing supply of electricity, who will win the bidding war, data centers or customers like all of humanity that are indirect customers of data centers, that's why we need power. That is the answer that will determine how beneficial your future welfare will be as electricity is becoming the most valuable commodity on earth.