{"id":25231,"date":"2019-03-29T10:49:01","date_gmt":"2019-03-29T14:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=25231"},"modified":"2019-04-12T09:10:03","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T13:10:03","slug":"want-green-power-go-nuclear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/25231\/want-green-power-go-nuclear\/","title":{"rendered":"Want Green Power? Go Nuclear."},"content":{"rendered":"

In our Liberty Update<\/a> this week, CFIF highlights how this week’s Senate vote on leftists’ “Green New Deal” once again exposed their hypocrisy.\u00a0 We note how if climate alarmists really meant what they said, they’d support nuclear power, which offers carbon-free, reliable, safe power.\u00a0 In a Wall Street Journal<\/em> piece<\/a> entitled “The Nuclear Option Is the Real Green Deal,” nuclear scientists John Rie and Alan Emery further detail nuclear power’s record of safety:<\/p>\n

Is nuclear power dangerous?\u00a0 The only major nuclear accident in the U.S. – Three Mile Island, in 1979 – caused neither death nor increase in cancer areawide.\u00a0 The 2011 ‘disaster’ at the Fukushima plant in Japan also directly caused neither deaths nor disease from exposure to radiation.<\/p>\n

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’s attempt to keep it secret, lifesaving efforts such as the provision of iodine pills to local residents never happened.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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In our Liberty Update this week, CFIF highlights how this week’s Senate vote on leftists’ “Green New Deal” once again exposed their hypocrisy.\u00a0 We note how if climate alarmists really meant what they said, they’d support nuclear power, which offers carbon-free, reliable, safe power.\u00a0 In a Wall Street Journal piece entitled “The Nuclear Option Is […]<\/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":[26,205,5061,510],"class_list":["post-25231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-climate-change","tag-global-warming","tag-green-new-deal","tag-nuclear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25231","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=25231"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25252,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25231\/revisions\/25252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}