George F. Will This Nuclear Option Is Nuclear The costs of fads and superstition.

George F. Will
This Nuclear Option Is Nuclear

The costs of fads and superstition.

Nuclear power generates 20% of America's electricity and 69% of its carbon-free energy, yet no nuclear reactors have been built in the country for 30 years, writes columnist George Will for Newsweek. Instead, the government has wasted resources in developing inefficient energy sources like wind and solar power while national demand for electricity increases, he writes. "It is a travesty that the nation that first harnessed nuclear energy has neglected it so long because of fads about supposed 'green energy' and superstitions about nuclear power's dangers," he argues. Newsweek