If ever there were a compelling lesson in the ongoing and diverse dangers of nuclear power, it would be the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant disaster in northern Japan. Many of the 103 nuclear reactors currently operational in the United States rely on similar systems, but an upcoming new wave of smaller and safer nuclear technologies promises a brighter future.
Keeping the lights on in the global industrial world -- never an easy task -- never seems to get any easier.
Nuclear energy, which provides nearly 20 percent of our nation's
electricity, is at a crossroads. Can nuclear reactors -- the torrid,
pulsating, heat-generating hearts of nuclear power plants -- ever be
safe enough?
Particularly following the May 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant disaster in northern Japan, in which the cores of three of the plant's six reactors melted down and still remain critically dangerous, there's no doubt that everyone on this planet needs to know the answer to that question.
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| In this March 24, 2011, aerial photo taken by a small unmanned drone and released by Air Photo Service, damaged Unit 3 of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is seen in Okumamachi, Fukushima prefecture, northern Japan. (Air Photo Service Co. Ltd., Japan) |
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