Can Nuclear Power Save the Planet OR Is It Possible to Build Reactors Fast Enough to Save Us from Climate Change? By Marilyn Elie Indian Point Safe Energy Coalition eliewestcan@gmail.com Have you noticed a lot of articles lately about how good nuclear power is for the environment, especially as an answer to climate change? The Nuclear Energy Institute, the trade and publicity group for the industry is running a full court press on this topic right now. You can always tell an article based on NEI talking points. It invariably starts out by calling nuclear energy carbon free – it’s not. No form of energy is. See  https://timeforchange.org/co2-emission-nuclear-power-stations-electricityfor more details about energy generation and greenhouse gases. An NEI inspired article will then go on to make light of the storage of high level radioactive waste assuring readers this is a small problem because the waste is so dense it does not take up much room. The amount of space sometimes cited is supposedly equal to two football fields. Of course this ignores the problem of criticality and how close you can crowd used fuel rods together before they begin their own uncontrolled fission process – aka an explosion. In reality [...]