The solution to our nation's dependence on foreign, non-renewable resources to feed its insatiable energy appetite comes in the form of your friendly neighborhood nuclear power plant. While other sources prop up regimes the United States has no business supporting, it is in our interest to reduce the use of combustible fuels to combat global warming.
Though national support for nuclear energy continues to grow, it is time for our generation of young adults-matured during the events the past five years-to embrace and support nuclear energy. We are too sophisticated to succumb to alarmists who would have us believe that nuclear energy is scary and too savvy to accept the status quo of enormous energy imports from illegitimate regimes.
As it turns out, nuclear energy is green, and green is good. The attainment process creates no greenhouse gases, its byproducts can be secured safely underground ad infinitum and new \pebble-bed"" technology helps eliminate the possibility of meltdown. The process is clean, efficient and cheap.
France receives 75 percent of its energy from home-grown nuclear power versus our 20 percent. Do we really want to be that far behind France?
The Collegians for a Constructive Tomorrow understand what's at stake and have initiated a five-point plan to make sure decision makers know that a new generation of Americans supports nuclear energy. Come visit our table today in Library Mall to find out more.
