NUCLEAR NOW!

摘要

On a cool spring morning a quarter century ago, a place in Pennsylvania called Three Mile Island exploded into the headlines and stopped the US nuclear power industry in its tracks. What had been billed as the clean, cheap, limitless energy source for a shining future was suddenly too hot to handle. In the years since, we've searched for alternatives, pouring billions of dollars int windmills, solar panels, and biofuels. We've designed fantastically efficient light-bulbs, air conditioners, and refrigerators. We've built enough gas-fired generator: to bankrupt California. But mainly, each year we hack 400 million more tons of coal out of Earth's crust than we did a quarter century before, light it on fire, and shoot the proceeds into the atmosphere.