Why We Must Delay Nuclear Power

Almost all of us still ignore its disturbing weapons proliferation potential.

Everyone who thinks nuclear power is safe to use at increased scale today needs to upgrade their world models. It isn’t. In fact, the technology of nuclear power itself, even with safe reactor designs, presents a growing weapons proliferation problem, a proven statistical threat based simply on how many people have classified nuclear engineering knowledge, and how capable, accessible, and affordable are the tools (especially enrichment tech) for creating weapons of mass destruction (WMD). That WMD…