First small modular nuclear reactor design certified for use in U.S.

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3. What is your answer?

Aggressive "renewable" energy policies in places like California, Denmark, and Germany have failed and will only prolong our dependence on natural gas.

France closed its last coal mine two decades ago. Germany is still tearing down entire villages to reach the coal beneath them.

I used to be an anti-nuclear activist, and a fairly radical one at that. I'm not anymore.

We are caught between a rock and a hard place. The human population has become dependent on high density energy resources. Without them about half of us simply won't survive, mostly for lack of food, clean water, and adequate shelter. If we continue to burn fossil fuels global warming will have equally serious consequences.

There are two things we must do: Quit fossil fuels, and stabilize our population.

The only energy resource capable of displacing fossil fuels entirely is nuclear power.

We can stabilize our population by the economic and political empowerment of women, realistic sex education, and universal access to birth control.