The essay seems well reasoned, but the one example he gives looks misguided. > But… that gets everything backwards. The reason for this excessive caution aroun

The essay seems well reasoned, but the one example he gives looks misguided. > But… that gets everything backwards. The reason for this excessive caution around nuclear power was the lack of thoughtful and careful early deployments, leading to disasters like Three Mile Island and Chernobyl. It’s perfectly reasonable to suggest that the precautionary principle has gone too far, and overreacted to such a degree that we’re holding back useful nuclear deployments, but if we had been more careful and thoughtful in the early deployments of nuclear power, such that meltdowns were not something we had to deal with and the risk was effectively zero, then we’d see much more nuclear power around the globe. Three mile island was about as good of an example as you will get of well designed carefully considered deployment of nuclear power. Yes, mistakes were made, and the core melted, but because the plant was generally well designed, no significant contamination of the environment occurred, and no danger was posed to the public.