Exciting new technological breakthroughs are fueling a nuclear power renaissance around the world. It’s about time. The need for more energy is acute. High tech has an immense appetite for power. The cloud today consumes twice as much energy as the entire nation of Japan. As developing nations grow, so will their need to provide electricity for hundreds of millions of modern houses and much else.
This is why demand for nuclear power is mushrooming. More policymakers are finally facing the fact that generating nuclear power is safer than producing fossil fuels and renewables. It is also cleaner, producing no emissions of carbon dioxide.