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Peter Van Doren on Energy Independence

The Great Antidote

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Nuclear Power

The big fear, of course, is accidents. The fukashima accident in japan released radiation into the environment outside what's called the containment vessel. But we're also dealing with the fact that the economics of neks, they're expensive. They're very expensive to build. We id be, we need it another probably podcast to talk about what we think, epidemi logically, of the risks of exposure and whether the population is overly panicked about said exposure. There are certainly papers that have been written that says the increase costs of electricity arising from Japan's decision to shut down all nuclear plants after the fucushimen disaster led to an increase of deaths.

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