For decades, misplaced fears of nuclear energy convinced environmentalists and lawmakers to shutter America's nuclear power plants. However, a new book seeks to set the record straight on nuclear and usher in a brighter future for the vilified industry.
Written by Jeremy Carl and David Fedor, two energy scholars at Stanford University, Keeping the Lights on at America's Nuclear Power Plants argues that nuclear power has enormous potential to provide America safe and reliable electricity while lowering costs for consumers. Unfortunately, government policy has increased the average cost of nuclear-generated electricity by 29 percent since 2002, from $28 per megawatt hour to $36, by imposing ever expanding regulatory burdens on nuclear power plants.
