Energy.gov

Energy.gov is the official site for the government. They list three main reasons why nuclear power should be used. First is zero carbon. According to the Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI), the United States avoided more than 476 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions in 2019. That’s the equivalent of removing 100 million cars from the road and more than all other clean energy sources combined. Second. Nuclear land foot print is small. A typical 1,000-megawatt nuclear facility in the United States needs a little more than 1 square mile to operate. NEI says wind farms require 360 times more land area to produce the same amount of electricity and solar photovoltaic plants require 75 times more space. Third. Nuclear produces minimal waste. All of the used nuclear fuel produced by the U.S. nuclear energy industry over the last 60 years could fit on a football field at a depth of less than 10 yards! This article does not include the advantages of thorium plants and those are thorium is cheaper and more abundant, is much safer, can use up existing waste and can be built in a factory assembly line and transported on a semi truck to the site. If this is on the government sight why is nothing being done. The answer is that Secretary, U.S. Department of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm is wedded to wind and solar and probably has very little knowledge about nuclear especially thorium. In college she studied political science and French and then went to law school. Her husband is a lawyer.