The unceasing chorus of progressive voices fearmongering about nuclear power continues to undermine public confidence in humanity’s most reliable and readily scalable form of clean energy. That is an ironic enterprise for the political movement that is ostensibly devoted to lowering harmful emissions. Even more ironically, Democrats and their allies in academia and the media helped cause the very nuclear-waste-storage situation that they now decry as unsafe.
Two left-leaning academics — Rodney C. Ewing, co-director of the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University and a former chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board, and Allison Macfarlane, director of the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs at the University of British Columbia and a former chairwoman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission — claim in a representative recent opinion piece in Scientific American that “before we face [an] onrush [of new nuclear waste], we first need to deal with the large volume of waste we’ve already produced.” But this is exceedingly misleading.
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