Engineer: "Nuclear power is by far the best choice"

After reading a story on NRG's plans to build additional reactors at the South Texas Project, one reader of the Daily News in Galveston, Texas had a bone to pick with the newspaper. From a Letter to the Editor:

All of the considerations seemed to be based on current cost and availability of fossil fuels. There are so many other considerations for electrical power:

• Jobs to construct the unit.

• Energy for the future.

• Dollars going overseas for liquefied natural gas.

• Long-term cost or fuel and construction.

• Energy efficiency.

• Reliability of fuel supply.

• Giving money to dubious foreign countries.

From this engineer'’s view, nuclear power is by far the best choice. And that is what Congress is trying to tell us.

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