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Unlike A.I., climate change’s existential threat is not hypothetical. It is killing people now.”
Leah Stokes, professor of environmental politics at U-C, Santa Barbara, in New York Times, The Big Threat Has Been Climate Change. Now Comes A.I., Sept. 22.
Why I’m Pro-Nuke Now: Beginning
I composed this essay over much of 2026, as I was writing Beyond Vogtle — my detailed study (co-authored with James Boucher) of U.S. nuclear costs from the 1980s post-Three Mile Island reactors to the Vogtle 3 and 4 units completed earlier in this decade. It traces my journey from nuclear power doubter to proponent.
Why I’m Pro-Nuke Now: Centerpiece
This is the second part of a three-part post. It starts with the failure of carbon tax advocacy and continues with the premature closure of Indian Point and the concurrent dissolution of my dream that renewable energy could do it all. Part I, Beginning, started with the Three Mile Island accident and covered the decline
Why I’m Pro-Nuke Now: Conclusion
This concludes my three-part post. Part I, “Beginning,” began with the Three Mile Island accident and covered the decline of nuclear dread, the advent of fabulously reliable reactor operation, and nuclear power’s climate-hero status; it’s available here. Part II, “Centerpiece,” covered the failure of carbon tax advocacy, the closure of Indian Point, and the dissolution