Nuclear energy is key to any effort to protect the climate, so we must take action to support it, say Joshua Goldstein and Staffan Qvist in The Wall Street Journal. In their op-ed, Goldstein and Qvist urge that nuclear’s ability to scale quickly to meet worldwide demand and produce carbon-free power around-the-clock, regardless of the weather, offers the best means to reduce emissions as soon as possible. They also argue that opposition to nuclear is based more in preconceptions than in fact, debunking several common arguments against nuclear energy.
All the reasons put forward to oppose nuclear power amount to over-hyped fears that in no way stack up to the real dangers facing humanity from climate change.
The op-ed is adapted from the authors’ new book on climate change, “A Bright Future: How Some Countries Have Solved Climate Change and the Rest Can Follow.”
