By Michael Karnerfors, previsouly published at Currents, the
Swedish-American Chambers of Commerse magazine Today’s policies
on nuclear energy dictate that we shall put fuel that is unspent
– 95 percent of it – in an expensive hole in the ground. There
are better ways. Fourth generation nuclear power helps save us
from our own foolish plans. You are on a family car trip. You
need gas, so you stop at a station and fill up twenty gallons of
fuel in your car. You drive ten-fifteen miles down the road,
using up one third of a gallon of gas, and then you stop. To the
puzzlement of your family you siphon all of the unused gas out
of the tank. Two thirds of a gallon you pour out on the road and
set fire to. The remaining nineteen gallons you give back to a
gas station. Your family asks you: “Why are you doing that?!”.
You reply to them: “Oh that gas will be sent back to the oil
well and put it into the ground again, not to be used” By now
your family will call for an ambulance and have you committed on
grounds of in