'Too cheap to meter': The top 10 myths of nuclear power

by Rich Heffern

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Documentary filmmaker Michael Rose lists the top ten myths about nuclear power generation on the Huffington Post Green blog.

"Lewis Strauss who chaired the Atomic Energy Commission in 1954, the predecessor of today's Nuclear Regulatory Agency (NRC), spoke of an era when "atomic furnaces" from fission and fusion reactors would provide clean, safe, reliable, abundant and cheap power for generations to come. Such power would be 'too cheap to meter.' It hasn't been the panacea he foretold. In fact, it's been a train wreck of accidents, cost overruns, nuclear weapons proliferation and an ever-growing waste problem that is always on the verge of being solved."

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