Text Box: Nuclear Power as a Solution? “...this book is an admonition that we must stop vilifying nuclear energy and rapidly expand this unique energy source so we can overcome the pending out-of-oil crisis.”—The Nuclear Imperative. “If nuclear power is the cleanest and safest form of energy available, as a majority of competent scientists and engineers conclude, then it ought to be supported, not condemned.”—Nuclear Renewal: Common Sense About Energy “Presently-known resources of uranium are enough to last for half a century...However, in future thorium is also likely to be utilized as a fuel for nuclear reactors...Thorium is about three times as abundant in the earth’s crust as uranium.”—Nuclear Energy in the 21st Century. The Perils of Nuclear? “Nuclear power is not clean and green as the industry claims because large amounts of traditional fossil fuels are need to mine and refine the uranium needed to run nuclear power reactors…”, to construct the massive concrete reactor buildings, and to transport and store the toxic radioactive waste created by the nuclear process.”—Nuclear Power is Not the Answer. “No country has yet developed a long-term disposal facility for the more than one million two-hundred thousand metric tons of depleted uranium already in existence around the world.”——Insurmountable Risks Text Box: Ramsey Library Hot Topics Text Box: Does Nuclear Have a Future?