By David. A Kraft, Director
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The legendary American conscience and humorist Will Rogers once quipped that some people learn by reading; others by being told. And some – just have to pee on the electric fence for themselves. It seems to us that those advocating construction of new nuclear reactors in a climate unstable world — where water will be THE ultimate constraining resource, and where we have ample historic evidence that reactors are less-efficient, vulnerable, or outright inoperable under expected severe drought conditions, and finally, where viable energy alternatives exist — would fall in that third category. Which would not necessarily be such a bad thing – if they didn’t require that we all hold hands with them.