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A Second Look at Nuclear Power

机译：再看核电

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For more than three decades, energy policies in the United States and much of the Western world have been held in the ideological grip of a flawed concept: the notion that we can achieve sustainable energy by relying solely on conservation and renewable resources, such as wind, the sun, the tides, and organic materials like wood and crop waste. Born in the wake of the 1973 oil embargo and arising out of renewed commitments to environmental quality, this idea has an almost religious appeal. An unintended result is that the world has become ever more reliant on fossil fuels and therefore less able to respond to global warming. Although the vision of a renewable energy future has obvious appeal, it simply hasn't worked. Yes, energy efficiency has improved. We can now produce incremental gains in gross national product with much less energy than in the past, and electricity growth rates have been cut by more than two-thirds. But renewable energy sources have not come close to displacing fossil fuels as our primary source of energy. The failure is significant, eroding a fundamental premise on which modern energy planning is based. The long-term goal has been consistent: a supply adequate to meet global human needs while moving away from fossil fuels, ensuring environmental sustainability (especially reducing greenhouse gas emissions), and achieving energy security. Instead, we are moving unwittingly toward a fossil fuel future, exactly what we've been trying to avoid.
机译：在过去的三十多年中，美国和许多西方国家的能源政策始终处于一个有缺陷的概念的意识形态控制之下：我们可以仅依靠自然保护和可再生资源（例如风能）来实现可持续能源这一观念，阳光，潮汐以及诸如木材和农作物废料的有机材料。这个想法诞生于1973年的石油禁运之后，并且由于对环境质量的新承诺而产生，这种想法几乎具有宗教吸引力。意外的结果是，世界变得越来越依赖化石燃料，因此对全球变暖的反应能力下降。尽管对可再生能源的未来抱有明显的吸引力，但它根本没有用。是的，能源效率有所提高。现在，我们可以用比以前少得多的能源来产生国民生产总值的增量收益，而电力增长率已降低了三分之二以上。但是可再生能源尚未接近取代化石燃料作为我们的主要能源。失败是重大的，侵蚀了现代能源规划所基于的基本前提。长期目标始终如一：提供足以满足全球人类需求的供应，同时远离化石燃料，确保环境可持续性（尤其是减少温室气体排放），并实现能源安全。相反，我们不知不觉地朝着化石燃料的未来迈进了，这正是我们一直在努力避免的事情。

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