{"id":25196,"date":"2019-02-26T15:13:45","date_gmt":"2019-02-26T20:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=25196"},"modified":"2019-03-04T16:18:09","modified_gmt":"2019-03-04T21:18:09","slug":"want-green-energy-go-nuclear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/25196\/want-green-energy-go-nuclear\/","title":{"rendered":"Want &#8220;Green Energy?&#8221;  Go Nuclear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amid public ridicule of Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/aoc-to-critics-of-green-new-deal-im-the-boss-until-you-try\">&#8220;Green New Deal&#8221;<\/a> monstrosity, <em>The Wall Street Journal<\/em> includes a brilliant <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/the-nuclear-option-is-the-real-green-deal-11551137688?mod=itp_wsj&amp;ru=yahoo\">commentary<\/a> in today&#8217;s edition addressing a truly beneficial way to advance safe, reliable, carbon-free energy &#8211; nuclear.\u00a0\u00a0 Importantly, authors John Rie and Alan Emery detail nuclear energy&#8217;s remarkable safety record through the decades:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Is nuclear power generation dangerous?\u00a0 The only major nuclear accident in the U.S. \u2014 Three Mile Island, in 1979\u2014caused neither death nor increase in cancer areawide.\u00a0 The 2011 &#8216;disaster&#8217; at the Fukushima plant in Japan also directly caused neither deaths nor disease from exposure to radiation.<\/p>\n<p>World-wide, there have been fewer than 150 deaths from nuclear plants, mostly from the 1986 Chernobyl accident, in which bad design and a series of operator errors led to a significant release of radiation into the environment.\u00a0 Thanks to the Soviet government\u2019s attempt to keep it secret, lifesaving efforts such as the provision of iodine pills to local residents never happened.\u00a0 For comparison, according to a 2012 World Health Organization report, urban outdoor air pollution from the burning of fossil fuels and biomass is estimated to cause three million deaths world-wide each year.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s an excellent piece worth reading in full, not least for its corrective of the all-too-common myth that nuclear power somehow maintains a comparatively weak safety record.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid public ridicule of Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s &#8220;Green New Deal&#8221; monstrosity, The Wall Street Journal includes a brilliant commentary in today&#8217;s edition addressing a truly beneficial way to advance safe, reliable, carbon-free energy &#8211; nuclear.\u00a0\u00a0 Importantly, authors John Rie and Alan Emery detail nuclear energy&#8217;s remarkable safety record through the decades: Is nuclear power generation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[195,3318,5061,510],"class_list":["post-25196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-energy","tag-green-energy","tag-green-new-deal","tag-nuclear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25196"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25212,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25196\/revisions\/25212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}