In his November 4 column, Fareed Zakaria joins billionaire investor John Doerr in saying that nuclear power plants should contribute to replacing fossil fuels. Fareed says, “We will need some nuclear energy because it is an always-on zero emissions source.”
Nuclear power will never be popular with environmentalists, if you look at the big picture scientifically, there is no other non-fossil-fuel option that even comes close to providing lots of dependable power.