In The Case for Nukes: How We Can Beat Global Warming and Create a Free, Open, and Magnificent Future nuclear and aerospace engineer Robert Zubrin makes a compelling case for nuclear power. It’s the cleanest, safest source of the massive energy essential to mankind’s flourishing in the rest of the 21st century and beyond. He’s a reasoned optimist and thinks nuclear power is cause to be bullish about man’s future.
The essence of nuclear power is splitting or combining atoms to release energy. You split heavy atoms or combine light atoms. So far only splitting heavy atoms (nuclear fission,) is commercially viable, though fusion offers the potential to provide an order of magnitude more energy.
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