IMAGE: Anne Lund — OOA Foundation

Let’s leave nuclear power in the past

I am dusting off the old smiling sun badge to talk about the increasingly negative perceptions of nuclear power around the world, to the point where, with the exception of a few unconditional enthusiasts, it is beginning to be seen as a technology with less and less of a role in the world’s energy future.

During the 1950s, the term atomic age was widely used to describe a future where all energy…