Nuclear Energy - Quillette

Nuclear Power Is Already Great

When “nuclear-loving greens” demand innovation, they imply something is wrong with current reactors, and slow down climate policy. This needs to stop.

Marco Visscher

20 Nov 2024 · 9 min read

Net Zero and the Law of Diminishing Returns

Civilisation has always been dependent on energy.

Noel Yaxley

6 Dec 2023 · 9 min read

Humanity Should Split More Atoms

The cure for poverty and climate change is nuclear.

Lea Booth

7 Jul 2023 · 8 min read

Chernobyl Revisited

Much of the tragedy resides in our collective response to the meltdown.

Lea Booth

26 Apr 2023 · 8 min read

The Dawn of Nuclear Energy Abundance

The day is coming when nuclear energy will transform our planet.

Lea Booth

9 Feb 2023 · 19 min read

It’s Time the Green Movement Stopped Demonizing Nuclear

The pro-nuclear movement is gaining traction despite vocal opposition

Zion Lights

10 Dec 2022 · 13 min read

The Energy Future Belongs to Nuclear

It remains the only proven technology capable of serving the energy needs of de-carbonized modern society.

Regis Nicoll

4 Nov 2022 · 6 min read

Hyping the Energy Transition

Consumption of fossil fuels is growing faster than ever.

Robert Bryce

18 Oct 2022 · 7 min read

Germany's Energy Catastrophe

If Russia permanently cuts off natural gas exports to Germany, it will likely send the country, the world’s fourth-largest economy, into a severe recession.

Lea Booth

14 Jul 2022 · 9 min read

The Problem with Nuclear Power

In the US it’s hard to imagine nuclear power playing anything more than a minimal role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions, which makes projected goals for 2030 and beyond difficult to achieve.

William Beaver

31 May 2022 · 7 min read

How We Can Get Clean Energy—What Needs to Be Done?

Editor's note: this is the third in a three-part series on how we can get clean energy. Part I explains the relationship between Fuel and Human Progress, Part II answers the question “Is Nuclear Power Safe?” and Part III provides an answer to “What Needs to Be Done?

Robert Zubrin

17 May 2022 · 12 min read

Why Environmentalists Pose a Bigger Obstacle to Effective Climate Policy than Denialists

The opposition to nuclear energy is not the only way in which mainstream environmentalists have, with the best of intentions, hurt the cause of climate action.

Maarten Boudry

27 Jan 2022 · 10 min read

I Was Invited to Testify on Energy Policy. Then Democrats Didn't Let Me Speak

What, exactly, had I said that was so dangerous as to lead Democrats to engage in character assassination and undermine liberal democratic norms? Nothing I hadn’t already said last January when I testified before Congress about climate change and energy.

Michael Shellenberger

29 Jul 2020 · 6 min read

Why Climate Activists Will Go Nuclear—Or Go Extinct

A consensus has grown in the UK among Conservatives and much of Labour that it needs nuclear not just for climate change but also to reduce its dependence on imported natural gas.

Michael Shellenberger

25 Jun 2020 · 13 min read

Quillette Podcast 40 – Nuclear Expert Michael Shellenberger on the Woeful Shortcomings of Chernobyl, the HBO mini-series

Toby Young talks to Quillette contributor and nuclear energy expert Michael Shellenberger about what Chernobyl, the critically-acclaimed HBO mini-series, got wrong and why that matters. Michael wrote about this recently for Forbes. They also discuss the religious impulses driving the Extinction Rebellion protests.

Quillette

28 Jun 2019 · 1 min read