SORRY, BUT IF YOU’RE SERIOUSLY WORRIED ABOUT GLOBAL WARMING AND CARBON EMISSIONS, YOU CAN’T ALSO BE ANTI-NUCLEAR. “Nuclear reactors do one thing no other mainstream source of electricity can boast: they generate large blocks of power without producing carbon dioxide in the process.”

Plus this: “The liquid-fluoride thorium reactor, developed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee during the late 1960s, ran successfully for five years before being axed by the Nixon administration. The reason for its cancellation: it produced too little plutonium for making nuclear weapons. Today, that would be seen as a distinct advantage. Without the Cold War, the thorium reactor might well have been the power plant of choice for utilities everywhere.”