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Forum, Dec. 12: Solar, wind energy are increasingly practical
Published: 12/11/2020 10:00:26 PM
Modified: 12/11/2020 10:00:13 PM
Solar, wind energy are increasingly practical
David Weisman’s excellent response (“Nuclear power is a dinosaur technology,” Dec.7) to Robert Hargraves’ Forum letter about nuclear power and climate change (“Fission power promises a check on climate change,” Dec.2) rightly branded nuclear a “dinosaur technology” a term well-chosen indeed.
As a trustee for more than 40 years of the New England Coalition on Nuclear Pollution, I had occasion to study the hazards of uranium mining, the many problems (including emissions) of a nuclear plant in operation, the enormous cost overruns, the long time spans required for the building of nuclear plants (15-19 years typically), and the gnawing dilemma of radioactive waste disposal, since there is no permanent storage for the waste some of which will emit poisons for at least 200,000 years.