Keeping Nuclear Power Plants on the Job
November 16, 2018
A scientific advocacy group just released a report warning that many US nuclear power plants face being retired abruptly for economic reasons. The group argues that plants meeting high safety standards should be kept running while alternatives for reducing carbon emissions are deployed and that the government should adopt policies to protect the plants’ immediate survival. Issues has published proposals for reinvigorating the nuclear enterprise (here and here), and a possible modest role for the military in aiding commercial operations.