Nuclear Power's Original Mistake: Trying to Domesticate the Bomb (Bloomberg View)

[NeoGreen]

1. Don't forget "Too Cheap to Meter"...

...nuclear power has failed to live up to the implied promise, and consequently is culpable to the damage caused by Dangerous Natural Gas™ in the last 63 years.

Too Cheap to Meter
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Too_cheap_to_meter

Although sometimes attributed to Walter Marshall, a pioneer of nuclear power in the United Kingdom, the phrase was coined by Lewis Strauss, then Chairman of the United States Atomic Energy Commission, who in a 1954 speech to the National Association of Science Writers said:

"Our children will enjoy in their homes electrical energy too cheap to meter... It is not too much to expect that our children will know of great periodic regional famines in the world only as matters of history, will travel effortlessly over the seas and under them and through the air with a minimum of danger and at great speeds, and will experience a lifespan far longer than ours, as disease yields and man comes to understand what causes him to age."

Or at least if one were to comprehensively apply the logic presented by some prolific intertube bloggers.