Nuclear power has raised both hope and deep distrust. Can it make a comeback as energy needs increase? Review of The Power of Nuclear, by Marco Visscher, Bloomsbury Sigma, 320 pages, $28 (US)
BY JAMES B. MEIGS, Wall Street Journal, Jan. 04, 2025
THE INDIAN POINT nuclear power plant, on the banks of the Hudson River about 30 miles north of New York City, first opened in 1962 and was greatly expanded in the 1970s. For many years it was a monument to technological optimism. On a site smaller than that of a shopping mall, the plant’s two reactors could produce over 2,000 megawatts of electricity, enough to supply more than a quarter of the city’s power needs—safely and reliably, without a trace of emissions.… Read more