This really struck me: "One low-enriched fuel pellet weighing the same as three pennies contains the energy equivalent of 1,780 pounds of coal" I knew nuclear

This really struck me: "One low-enriched fuel pellet weighing the same as three pennies contains the energy equivalent of 1,780 pounds of coal" I knew nuclear had a higher density, but wow, that's a pretty striking way to put that information into perspective. I understand all the fears of accidents, terrorist attacks, etc... but if your goal is to curb CO2, it certainly looks like an option worth considering. Increasing nuclear plant safety seems like a more tractable engineering problem than figuring out how to keep CO2 out of the environment after you've liberated it from tons and tons of coal.