The parts of a boat have funny names to a landsman. Many of the names go back hundreds of years and their origins are often lost. Some make sense only if you know something of sailing ship construction in the 16th century.
Cheap dreams, expensive realities. In the dawn of the nuclear era, cost was expected to be one of the technology's advantages, not one of its drawbacks. The first chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, Lewis Strauss, predicted in a 1954 speech that nuclear power would someday make electricity âtoo cheap to meter.â.
Since the 1980s, the U.S. Has Secretly Helped Japan Build Up Its Nuclear Weapons Program â¦ Pretending It Was âNuclear Energyâ and âSpace Explorationâ â¦. As demonstrated below, nuclear energy is expensive and bad for the environment. The real reason it is being pushed is because it is good for helping countries like Japan and the U.S. build nuclear weapons.