Thread by @ShellenbergerMD

Forget what you've heard

Nuclear power is

- largest clean (carbon-free) energy (OECD)
- has *prevented* 2M deaths from air pollution
- *only* true substitute for fossil fuels
- is making a comeback — even in California

My latest — please share!

forbes.com/sites/michaels…

Nuclear is the cheapest clean energy around the world.

Nuclear-heavy France spends nearly half as much for electricity that produces *10 times less* carbon emissions than renewables-heavy German electricity

Renewables make electricity more expensive everywhere from California to Germany for the same reason: they are unreliable and energy dilute, requiring *400 - 750 times* more land

forbes.com/sites/michaels…

Over *4 times* more people died on the streets of Los Angeles in 2018 than have or will die from all world's nuclear accidents *combined*

Renewables are approaching their limit in California. The state’s electricity grid manager increasingly has to pay neighboring states to take our excess solar

California has even cut-off excess power coming from solar farms on sunny, low-demand days, to avoid damaging the grid.

California’s electricity emissions are 2x what they would have been had the state kept open & built planned nuclear plants.

Had California spent $100B on nuclear instead of wind $ solar, it would have had enough energy to replace all fossil fuels in its in-state electricity mix

On October 20, pro-nuclear people in over 25 cities around the world will Stand Up for Nuclear

Why? To defend our most important source of energy from those who are attacking it.

Will you join us?

Learn more:

standupfornuclear.org