Independent voices from the TWT Communities
A scant eight miles west-southwest of where I have taught numerous atmospheric science courses at the Beaver County campus of Penn State University, along the Ohio River in Shippingport, Pa., sits the first commercial nuclear power plant in the United States.
Although he frequently cites anthropogenic climate change as a major reason for fossil-fuel replacement, which I cannot agree with, he also notes the harmful health effects of and even high radiation associated with coal burning, with which I can agree.
Another distinction for the plant, as Richard Martin writes in "SuperFuel: Thorium, the Green Energy Source for the Future," Shippingport is "still the only commercial reactor to operate over a long period of time on thorium fuel."
